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BUD ROBINSON 



Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 
1902, by REUBEN ROBINSON, in the Office of the 
Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C. 



SUNSHINE 



and SMILES 



By BUD ROBINSON 









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1902 

Texas Holiness Adyooate, 

Greenyille, Texas. 



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DEDICATION. 



I lovingly dedicate this book to the 
Whole human family, to whom I am indebt- 
ed for every idea expressed in it, for when 
I came into this world I knew nothing at 
all, not even the way to my month. 

Yours for the glory of God and the 
good of Humanity. 
Bun Robinson. 



SKETCH OF MY LIFE. 



I moved to America on January 27th, 1880. I 
met a cold reception, of course, as the snow was 
something like knee deep and I was very thinly 
clad, just having the suit that nature provided for 
me. I settled in White county, Tennessee. My 
first employment was to work for my living, and 
my mother said I was a good rustler, but I used up 
my income as fast as I got it, as I continue to do 
until thi3 good day. 

My baby buggy was not a carriage but a hol- 
low log, about four feet long, split open, making a 
nice little trough, with an old quilt in it and a pil- 
low. I spent several months as happy as a lark. 
My mother sat by me and carded wool and cotton 
rolls to spin her thread. As mother sat there by 
the old log fire and sung the sweatest old songs in 
the world, I had nothing to do but lie there in the 
little cradle — as it was called — and listen to mother 
sing, play with my hands, suck my thumb and gc 



4 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 

to sleep* As mother carded she rocked the cradle 
with her foot, looked down into the trough and 
talked all kinds of baby talk to me and said many 
a time that " Little Buddie was sure to make his 
mark in the world/' 

Well, my friends, I want to stop long enough 
to tell you, I made the mark; it was a long, black 9 
crooked one. The liope of tEe i^ace is the confi- 
dence a mother puts in her children. Every true 
mother can see something in her boy that other 
people can't see. The reason we can't see some- 
thing in them , is because they are tobt 'our boys. 
The reason she does is because he is her boy. She 
looks beyond his misfortunes and sees m: him great 
possibilities and in her heart full of love she knows 
that success is sure to come— with the smile of hope 
on her face she sees fortune just ahead.; 

By this time you are anxious to know whether 
or not the baby boy ever got out of the hollow log. 
Of course he did; don't you know that you can't 
keep a boy forever in a hollow log? and I told you 
at the start that the log was only four >fteet long. 1 
soon outgrew it and mother had te> put breeches on 
me and turn me loose -with the other children. 
About this time in life recollection came into use ; 
the first thing I remember ; was the soldiers going 
by with blue coats on, the next things was my 
mother ^coming ] fthrough the cornfield shouting. 
She was coming from the spring that w&s over" at 
the back, of the little corn field — it was one of those 



SUNSHINE AND SMILES 5 

beautiful springs flowing out from under the great 
mountain, as clear as crystal and so cold it would 
make your teeth ache, just running over the white 
sand and gravel, sunperch, red bass and speckled 
trout playing under the rocks that stuck out over 
the branch all covered with ferns and mountain 
mass. Surely that was one of the prettiest places 
in the world, and while mother was over there get- 
ting water, the same Christ that met the woman at 
the well, met mother, and while she was filling her 
bucket with water, the Lord filled her soul with 
grace, and she came through the field with her 
bucket in one hand, waving the other over her head 
praising the Lord. Occasionally she would set the 
bucket down and go to clapping her hands and 
shouting in the old style. It was Glory! Glory!! 
Hallelujah, Bless God forever! We children ran 
out and climbed up on the yard fence, where we 
could just see mother's head as she jumped up and 
down in the corn rows. She came on to the house 
bare headed, had spilt nearly all the water and lost 
her bonnet, but she had a shine on her face I never 
will forget. I was at that time about four years 
old, and mother's shouting put. me under such deep 
conviction I had no rest from the sense of guilt and 
condemnation. I wanted religion worse than any 
thing in the world. I well remember going down 
into the apple orchard, getting down on my knees 
under the old horse-apple tree to pray. L don't 
rknow why I didn't get religion unless it was be- 



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cause of the wickedness of my father. He was 
very profane and v/ould come in the house and 
swear bitterly. This would excite me very much 
and for the time being I would forget the struggles 
of my poor little heart. There are pictures that 
remain in the child's memory like burs in a sheep's 
wool; the next one that took fast hold of mine was 
a difficulty between mother and a Yankee soldier. 
My father had been run off from home and all the 
horses taken but one old sorrel mare with a blaze 
face and one eye out, "Old Gin" we called her. 
Mother and we children hauled wood on the sled 
with "Old Gin." One morning mother went out 
to feed her and the Yankee soldier told her to feed 
that mare well, for he expected to ride her that day. 
Of course the war opened right there. Mother told 
him never in this world would he ride "Old Gin." 
She fed the mare and we children stayed out in the 
yard to see whether or not the Yankee was coming 
to get her. About the time "Old Gin" finished up 
her breakfast the Yankee was at the barn door 
with mother and us children, and the circus opened 
up. He opened the barn door and went in to put 
the bridle on the mare and mother took it off. He 
began to curse and mother was shaking her fist in 
his face, calling him all sorts of hard names. He 
put the bridle on again and mother pulled it off. 
By this time he was pretty hot, and jerked an old 
pistol out of his belt and we children began to 
scream as loud as we could and hold to mother's 



SUNSHINE AND SMILES 7 

dress. He swung the revolver over his head, 
and cursed. By this time mother was at white 
heat and hit him right over the head and face with 
the bridle just as hard as she could put it on him. 
Then the regular fight took place ; they clenched 
and scuffled over the barn for some little time while 
we children were almost having spells. Finally he 
shoved mother up against the barn door and hurt 
her side, and before she could regain her strength 
and renew the battle he had put the bridle on "Old 
Gin." led her out of the barn and was riding away. 
Mother stood in the barn door, shaking her fist 
after him and saying in a loud voice: "You'd 
better get a good ride today, because this is the last 
day you will ever ride 'Old Gin,' for if God spares 
my life I will have old Pleas Parr and the Texas 
Guerrillas on your track before night." He 
laughed at her and rode on. Of course mother was 
only threatening him, as she had no idea that the 
guerrillas were anywhere in the country. So the 
little squad of Yankee soldiers — about seventy -five 
in number — went on up the road about twelve miles 
from our house on the little Calf Killer river, stop- 
ping at a house where there was a sick woman and 
a lot of old women had gathered in to w T ait on her. 
The soldiers began to exchange horses with the 
women without their consent and put some of them 
to cooking dinner for them. While they were eat- 
ing, swapping horses and mistreating the old 
women, old Pleas Parr and his band of Texas guer- 



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rillas came across the mountains from East 
Tennessee, ran up on them and surely made it hot 
for the boys. Pleas Parr and his men fought 
under the black flag. They never gave nor took 
prisoners, and they had six shooters belted on them 
from their necks to their knees. I expect the 
Texas guerrillas, as they were called, were among 
the worst men in the world. At their appearance 
the blue coats leaped in their saddles and went 
down the road at full speed, the guerrillas after 
them. Every few hundred yards they would shoot 
one off his horse and some one of the band would 
get down and cut off his head. By the time they 
had reached our place they had killed most all the 
soldiers. They went by at full speed with their 
horses covered with foam and dust, their mouths 
open and tongues out, with the sound of revolvers 
every minute, men hollering and pleading for their 
lives. What a sad day. God forbid that we should 
ever see another like it. As they came near our 
house "Old Gin" left the main road, turned round 
the corner of the field and coming to a deep gully 
tried to jump it, but failed and went head foremost 
in the gully right on top of the soldier that had 
whipped mother that morning. The guerrillas sup- 
posing they had killed both horse and rider, went 
on after the rest. After they had all passed by 
the soldier got out of the gtilly, ran through the 
field and made his escape. Mother and we chil- 
dren went down and got "Old Gin," led her to the 



SUNSHINE AND SMILES 9 

house, bound up her limbs, carried her water and 
worked with her for a week before she was suffi- 
ciently recovered from her ride to assume her dut- 
ies. That soldier may have forgotten some things 
in his life but there is one day's work that will 
never be erased from his memory. The day he 
whipped mother, took "Old Gin" and met the 
Texas crowd, will remain fresh in his memory until 
he meets his black box, and all the preachers in 
the world will never be able to convince that fellow 
that mother was not to blame for the whole affair. 
I can just see that poor man now out in the moun- 
tains that night, under a rock raking up a few 
leaves to make him a bed, goes to sleep about mid- 
night, cursing rebels, and in his dreams he sees 
women and children, blazed face horses, bridles, 
pistols, Texas guerrillas, deep gulleys and such 
like. 

About this time in my life my mother had a 
strange dream about me. She dreamed she had to 
offer me as a sacrifice on the altar just as Abraham 
offered Isaac, and that I was to be offered for the 
whole family, and without it the family would be 
lost. In her dream she built the altar, bound me, 
laid me on the altar and the Lord told her to take 
my life. She screamed and plead with the Lord to 
spare me, awoke and rejoiced to find it only a 
dream, went back to sleep and dreamed the same 
thing again, and in the last dream she saw that all 
the suffering that could be put on me didn't seem 



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to take my life and that mine was to be a life of 
suffering and sacrifice and through my suffering 
the rest of the family was to be brought to Christ. 
This dream made a great impression on my mind ; 
it renewed conviction and created such a desire in 
ray heart for religion that I never could wear it off, 
and with all the fun — as I called it — in my life I 
was never easy until the night I was converted — in 
my 21st year. No one could persuade mother her 
dream has not been fulfilled in her Buddie's life. I 
will leave it for others who know me to judge. 

In my fifth year the war was over, our father 
had come home, sold out his land and bought wag- 
ons and horses and we prepared to move to Missis- 
sippi. We left the mountains of Tennessee in the 
fall of 1865 and just before Christmas we landed in 
Tipper county, Mississippi, settled on the little Tal- 
lahassie river, where there were more fish and 
mud turtles, mosquitoes and water moccasins than 
any place in America. We stayed in Mississippi 
four years. The first year was one of misfortune 
and hardship; our horses all died with blind stag- 
gers. My father rented a farm from a man who 
was to furnish us teams. When the crop was 
planted the man went back on his contract and he 
and my father had trouble — he was a very mean 
nan and my father was just as mean as he. After 
ny father lost his crop he rented a still from a man 
tad went to making whiskey. He did not work at 
•hat long until he and the man who owned the still 



SUNSHINE AND SMILES 11 

had trouble, fought and came near killing each 
other. That was another dark day. By the time 
we were through with the whiskey business all of 
our property was gone but one wagon and two milk 
cows, and now he traded the cows for a little yoke 
of steers and moved out into the pinery and went 
to burning tar for a living, which was a very hard 
life. There are not many boys nowadays that ever 
saw a tar kiln. First you go through the woods 
and gather up the pine knots and pile them in piles, 
then go back over the ground with your wagon and 
haul your knots to the kiln, then split up your 
knots and build a tar kiln, and burn and get the 
tar out. I will not go into detail and try to explain 
the process of burning the kiln, but it was a very 
hard job and the dirtiest work in the world. We 
were in the tar business three years. We generally 
built about three kilns a year and would run from 
five to six hundred gallons out of a kiln and sell it 
for about 40 cents per gallon. It was used all over 
the country for axle grease, every wagon having a 
tar gourd hanging on the coupling pole. We spent 
the wet weather and Sundays hunting and fishing. 
The woods were full of deer and turkeys. You 
could hear the turkeys gobbling every morning 
and any where you went you would see a deer run 
across the road. We caught fish and swamp rab- 
bits, killed snakes until we quit numbering, ate 
muscadines, fought mosquitoes and ticks, and I 
reckon had the hardest and biggest chills in Miss- 



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issippi. We children passed off the time at night 
sitting by a big fire built of pine knots* telling rid* 
dies and chewing pine wax. 

At the end of our four years' struggle we 
reached the fall of '69 and with a few household 
goods on the old wagon i the little steers hitched to 
it, a big tar gourd full of tar swung in on the coup- 
ling pole, mother on the wagon with the baby on 
her lap and seven other children either on the 
wagon or afoot playing along the road* we now bid 
the old Tallahassie and the swamps of the Miss* 
issippi a hearty farewell. We are now on the road 
for the mountains of old Tennessee again. My 
father walks ahead of the wagon with a musket on 
his shoulder, my oldest brother drives the little 
steers. We children ride time about, three or four 
on the wegon, the others walking up the sandy 
road playing in the sand or stopping tinder the 
chestnut trees and picking up chestnuts, or climb- 
ing the fence and getting into some fellow's 
orchard. We would strike up camps on some little 
creek or at some spring, a little before sundown, 
unyoke and feed "Nig" and "Jerry" (the litttle 
oxen), build a big chunk fire, then we boys were 
up the creek with our dog in a few minutes to see 
if we couldn't start a rabbit. It was "seek, seek, 
there he goes," and away Dixie would go after 
him. In a few moments he runs him into a hollow 
tree or log. We chop him out so quick it would 
make your head swim. We are now back with the? 



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babbit, dressing him for supper. Mother brings 
the skillet and lid out of the wagon , puts them on 
the fire, and while they are heating she brings out 
the corn meal, bread tray and sifter. Now she 
puts the skillet on coals of fire and proceeds to 
make up her bread. She sifts the meal in the big 
tray and makes up the dough with her hands, puts 
three nice pones in the skillet, puts on the lid, 
putting coals on that. She then gets the frying 
pan out of the wagon and goes to frying the rabbit, 

Now, reader, just think of it! Old fashioned 
'corn bread cooked in a skillet and fried rabbit for 
supper! My, my, I can just smell that rabbit and 
taste that corn bread until now. That night was 
thirty -three years ago. It seems to be only yes- 
terday. I can just see the little creek and the old 
water elm standing by the ford, Dixie lying under 
the wagon, the little oxen haying eaten their sup- 
per, lying down to rest, Now mother brings out 
an old quilt or two, makes a big pallet by the fire. 
A dozen or more little red feet are turned to the 
^hunk fire and we are off to the land of dreams. 

About the break of day we hear father calling 
"Boys! boys!! It is time to get up and make a 
fire and feed the steers. " So in a few minutes we 
are up throwing the chunks together and shucking 
corn for Nig and Jerry. While mother is getting 
breakfast we cut a pole about fifteen feet long and 
a little short fork about three feet long to grease 
the wagon with. We run one end of the long pole 



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under the wagon and three or four of us boys get 
under the other end and raise the wagon and put 
the little fork under to hold it up. We now get the 
wagon hammer and drive out the lynch pin, take 
off the wheel and get the tar gourd off of the coup- 
ling pole, and with a little paddle we put the tar on 
the axle and a few paddles full in the wheel to make 
it run light during the day, and by night you could 
hear it squeak a quarter of a mile. The next 
morning we would have to tar up again. We kept 
this up every morning for three weeks until we 
reached the Tennessee mountains. I remember as 
we went through Alabama, in one of the little towns 
two negro men gave us a cursing and called us 
4 'poor white trash" and pretended they were going 
to ride over the wagon. I couldn't blame the boys 
much. We surely did look pretty tough. But 
mother couldn't stand it. She got the old musket 
out of the back end of the wagon and loaded it up. 
She put in a hand full of powder, put a wad of 
paper in on it and beat it down with the ram rod, 
then put in sixteen buckshot and a little paper on 
that. While she was getting the box of caps the 
colored boys had business up the lane. I tell you 
mother was one of the pluckiest little rebels you 
ever saw. Lee surrendered in 1865 but it was many 
years later when Mother Robinson surrendered. 
I think she could see blue overcoats and muskets 
in her dreams, until the year Bros'. H. C. Morrison 
and Joe McClurkan run the Waco Holiness Camp 



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Meeting, when mother got so happy in the experi- 
ence of full salvation that she lost her little black 
bonnet, her handbag and her prejudice, and hasn't 
seen the Mason and Dixon line since. 

We reached the mountains of Tennessee just 
before Christmas in 1869 and settled in a little cove 
or valley between two great mountains. Here we 
made headquarters until 1876. The mountain life 
is a very peculiar one. A fellow has to live there 
to understand the situation. Thirty odd years ago 
the mountains surely were a rough place. We had 
almost as great a war in 1872 and 1873 as we did in 
1862 and 1863, when Uncle Sam was setting the 
negroes free. In '72 and '73 he was collecting the 
revenue on whiskey and brandy. You see we 
mountaineers made corn whiskey for 25 cents per 
gallon and apple brandy for 50 cents per gallon, 
and of course when Uncle Sam came in and put a 
revenue on corn whiskey of 50 cents and apple 
brandy of 75 cents per gallon, when we were only 
getting 25 cents for whiskey and 50 cents for bran- 
dy, he met a hostile people. There was war as 
soon as the first officer arrived. Those mountain- 
eers clubbed together, and got in their old log 
houses with their muskets and citizens' rifles. If 
you don't think they killed men by the hundreds, 
you ask Uncle Sam. Within five miles of our 
house there were ten stills running day and night 
the year round, and of course the country was 
flooded with whiskey. The whiskey peddlers called 



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at our door every day, and with their ox cart load- 
ed with whiskey sold it out for country pro- 
duce — chickens, eggs, corn, potatoes, or anything 
the people raised. We bought and used it like 
milk and thought it was the remedy for every dis- 
ease known to the human family. A man couldn't 
be born, married or die without it, and every boy 
in the country was drunk two or three times a week, 
and we thought nothing of it. From the time little 
boys were ten years old they were getting drunk. 

Churches or schools were almost a thing un- 
known at that time. Civilization had not then 
reached the mountains. Railroads, steam engines, 
buggies or carriages, and houses of lumber were 
things unknown in my boyhood days. Oar houses 
were made of logs and the cracks between were 
daubed with mud. Our chimneys were made of 
sticks and mud. The floors were made of punch- 
eons, or dirt, without a window in the house. The 
roofing was of oak boards, three or four feet long, 
split out by hand. Our hauling was done on sleds 
and ox carts. Our bread stuff was made at the lit- 
tle water mill down the creek, where we boys used 
to go and stay almost all day waiting for our turn, 
as it would take from two to three hours to grind 
one sack of corn. We boys would spend the time 
in fishing, playing marbles or talking with the old 
men. 

Our clothing was homemade. Mother spun 
and wove our clothes and made every garment we 




BUD ROBINSON'S MOTHER 



SUNSHINE AND SMILES 17 

wore by hand. I was nearly seventeen years old 
when I saw my first sewing machine. Mother wove 
jeans every fall to make our winter clothing, and 
cotton checks and cottonades every spring for 
shirts and pants. When we had shoes mother knit 
our socks, but we were not troubled with shoes 
often. I had only worn out about one pair when I 
was big enough to go see the girls, and the girls in 
the mountains of Tennessee were as bad off as we 
boys. They did not have their little feet all 
cramped up with shoe leather, so we just sparked 
barefooted and had no idea we needed shoes to 
spark in. We were all on the same platform, and 
such a thing as going to church or Sunday school 
never entered our heads. 

I was a man with beard on my face the first 
Sunday school I ever saw. There were but few 
people that could read or write among the poorer 
people, and morality was at a very low ebb. The 
most of the young women were raising families 
"without the incumbrance of a husband." It was 
a very common thing when a neighbor called for 
him to ask if "you had heard that John and Sal had 
'took up' together." This was their style of mat- 
rimony. Without the expense of a license or a 
preacher they just "took up together." "John 
and Sal" might be a boy and girl, or perhaps the 
father and mother in different families that lived in 
the neighborhood, and they seemed to be about as 
well respected as any body else. I have been in 



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homes where the mother had eleven or twelve chil- 
dren, their oldest daughter three children, the sec- 
ond daughter two, the third one child, and the 
whole family would live in from one to two little 
rooms, made of logs with dirt floor and from one to 
two old bed steads, without a cooking stove. One 
or two chairs and an old bench constituted the fur** 
niture, but any number of neighbors were pressed 
to spend the night and often accepted the proffered 
hospitality. Some one will say " Where on earth 
did that crowd sleep ?" Well, now reader, that is a 
secret that belongs to us mountain folks. But if 
you will promise never to tell anybody I will make 
it so plain to you that you can never forget it. 

Now, did you ever throw down four or five old 
sheep skins and an old quilt or two and just see 
how many children you could put down on them? 
"Well," you say, "but what did they do for pil- 
lows? 7 ' Well f now friend, if you go to wanting 
pillows you had better stay out of the mountains of 
Tennessee. 

There was but little money in circulation at 
that time. In fact we did not need much money — - 
there was little to buy in the country. The men 
tanned their leather and made their own shoes at 
home, the women made the clothing, and the peo- 
ple raised everything they ate. We raised corn 
and wheat, potatoes, cabbage, fruit and berries in 
s^reat quantities. Our hogs got fat every fall on 
the acorns and chestnuts in the mountains, and our 



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'possums got fat on the persimmons. We gener- 
ally lived on 'possum most of the fall season. The 
young man that couldn't twist a 'possum out of a 
hollow log and dress him nice was no catch at all 
with the mountain girls, and the boy who had a 
good possum dog was considered first choice. And 
I want the reader to remember now and forever 
hereafter that in my day on the old Cumberland 
mountains there was nothing in this world equal to 
possum and sweet potatoes. You see, we had 
great big fire places six or seven feet long, and we 
would roll on a great back log two feet through, 
put on a big forestick and then pile on a big lot of 
little wood and just build up a log heap. We then 
dressed the old 'possum nice, put him into an old- 
fashioned oven, put the fire all around him and 
bring in a peck of yellow yam potatoes, put them 
in the fire and cover them up with hot ashes. We 
children would sit up, tell riddles and play blind- 
fold until the old possum would get done. 

Now, reader, just think of our satisfaction as 
mother takes the lid off of the oven and we smell 
the 'possum and see him brown and juicy in the 
big old oven, and mother takes him out on the big 
dish and we proceed to take out the potatoes. Of 
course, supper is now ready, and all hands go to 
work. We don't stop to ask a blessing. We had 
given thanks when we had caught the 'possum. 

Supper being over, such a thing as family 
prayer never being heard of in our country, we 



20 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 

had nothing to do but go to bed. We were not 
troubled with getting clean sheets and pillow slips* 
We just bring a sheep skin out of the corner and 
spread it out before the fire and lie down, and in a 
few minutes we were in the land of delight, and 
dreaming some of the finest things that ever passed 
through the mind of a mountain boy. 

About this time in my life an impression was 
made on my mind I never forgot. I went to spend 
the night with a little boy who had a religious 
home. When we went to eat supper the father 
asked a blessing and waited on the table, and was 
so nice to his wife and children. I had never seen 
anything of that kind. I thought surely he must 
be akin to the Lord. I had heard mother tell of 
his goodness. After supper we children played, 
ate apples, roasted potatoes and had a fine time 
until bed time. Then the father told the children 
it was time for bed. All stopped and sat down 
quietly around the fire. The father took down the 
family Bible, read a chapter, all got down on their 
knees and I knelt with them» For the first time in 
my life I was at family prayers. 

The man prayed for every body, then for his 
wife and children. Then he prayed for me, asked 
the Lord to bless me and make me a blessing to my 
home and a blessing to the world. It touched my 
tittle heart. I said right then "when I got to be a 
aian I was going to have me a nice home, a wife 
*nd chiidren, and I would be kind to my wife and 



SUNSHINE AND SMILES 21 

children, ask a blessing at the table, read the Bible 
and pray and let my children eat apples, play, and 
have a nice time in my home.*' 

Well, I thank God I have lived to see that de- 
sire that sprung up in my heart fulfilled . While I 
am writing two of the sweetest babies on earth are 
playing around me and pulling at my coat skirts 
and saying "Papa, cocne and swing me," and their 
mama looks on and smiles. 

Now, it seemed so sad to me to go from this 
home of kindness and family prayers back to our 
old log cabin and hear nothing but cursing and 
quarrelling, but such was my fate* That was in 
1872. In that year my father died, leaving mother 
in the mountains with ten children, but few friends 
and no money. Bless her old soul, I don't see how 
she lived and kept the children alive. But I re- 
member now, she would spin all day and then 
weave until midnight. 

We then began to have the real troubles of life. 
My two oldest brothers were getting drunk every 
week. My two oldest sisters were keeping bad 
company, and our old cabin was full of drunken 
boys three or four nights in each week. The young 
men that came to see my sisters would come so 
drunk they could not get off of their horses, and 
we would have to help them off when they came 
and help them on when they left. 

Now, reader, you have a faint picture of the 
mountain life and it is not overdrawn, for our 



22 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 

house was looked upon as one of the nicest places 
in the community, and we struggled on in that way 
until the fall of '76, when my mother sold out what 
little she had there and moved to Texas. We set- 
tled in Dallas county, near Lancaster, rented a 
farm and made a crop on the halves, the man fur- 
nishing teams, feed and farming implements. We 
made a fine crop, but we did not know how to sell 
cotton and get the money, for none of us boys 
could read or write, and didn't know how to trans- 
act business. The man took advantage of our 
ignorance and swindled us out of almost every- 
thing we made that year. 

We boys then began to scatter out and leave 
home, I hired out that winter to a man and worked 
for him three years — until the summer of 1880, 
when God converted me. 

I was converted on the 11th of August, on 
Wednesday, about 11 o'clock at night. That was 
the greatest time in all my life. It is as bright and 
clear in my mind today as if it had been but a few 
hours ago. 

Well, Glory to God for being brought in touch 
with the Almighty. A man never forgets the first 
time he met the Lord, and He lifts His blessed face 
on him full of tenderness and compassion. It 
makes an impression on him that will last through- 
out an endless eternity, and he feels his sins rolling 
away and rivers of salvation running down out of 
the clouds through his soul. The change is so 



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wonderful — brought from the bottom to the top in 
the twinkling of an eye. In a single moment he is 
changed from a pauper to the son of God. I will 
never forget that night. I went there without a 
friend but mother, and a walking tramp, went back 
an heir of God — joint heir with Jesus Christ and 
my name written in Heaven. 

How wonderfully God surprises people some- 
times. I did not go to that meeting to get religion. 
Mother persuaded me two or three days to get me 
off and I only went there to have fun and a good 
time, and just walked right in to salvation. Well, 
praise the Lord forever! It was God's way to 
reach me. Mother didn't know I had cards or an 
old pistol, but the Lord did. 

I walked about the camp ground two or three 
days trying to get a number of boys to play cards 
with me. But it seemed to me everybody was 
talking about religion. This was my first trip to a 
Methodist camp meeting. It was the old Bluff 
vSpring camp ground on the line between Dallas and 
Ellis counties. I had been there a day or two 
when the Christians were all sent back into the 
congregation to pray with some one, and an old 
lady that looked to be nearly a hundred years old 
came back to the back bench and found me. She 
knelt down before me and placed her hands on my 
knees. She asked God to stop me and not let me 
walk right into an awful hell. She seemed to tell 
the Lord all about me. I feel sure some one had 



24 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 

told her. I at first wanted to run, then I felt like 
getting mad, and got into an awful fix. I stayed 
through the prayer and by this time God had hold 
of me. 

That night they put up a little dried up looking 
preacher with a short coat on to preach, and I 
thought the whole thing would be a failure. But 
he hadn't preached twenty minutes until he had 
knocked every prop from under me, and I found 
my infidelity floating away. The man I worked 
for three years was a Universalist, and he had filled 
my head with universalism and infidelity, but when 
that old preacher held up Jesus Christ as the friend 
of lost sinners and the Saviour of the world I for- 
got everything but my awful condition. I sat 
there and wept while he preached. At the opening 
I had set down on the back bench by a little red 
headed girl that was a great dancer, and thought I 
would have a nice night of it, but in a few minutes 
I was under such awful conviction I forgot to spark 
the girl. When the altar call was made a great 
many went. I sort of held back but pretty soon an 
old preacher came down the isle and asked if 
"there was a young man back there who wanted 
to meet him in Heaven? If so, to come and give 
him his hand." I thought if I ever was going to 
do anything religious now was my time. I got up 
and started to go and give him my hand. By the 
time I got to the preacher I was weeping aloud, 
and the sins of my whole life were standing up be- 



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fore me. I didn't stop, but went on to the altar. 
As I went by the old man caught my hand and 
shook it. Every step down the isle I felt like I was 
walking right into an awful hell. The old pistol in 
my pocket felt as big as a mule and the pack of 
cards felt as heavy as a bale of cotton. When I 
reached the altar it was full and I never heard 
such weeping and praying before in all my life. 
Somebody said "Fix this young man a seat; he is 
deeply struck." I didn't need a seat — I only need- 
ed room to fall. I fell on my face, stretched in the 
altar. The good people gathered around me. It 
seemed to me fifty people were praying for me. 
You could have heard them a half mile away, and 
I felt like I was right over hell on a broken rail and 
would be dead and in hell in another minute, and 
I was praying at the top of my voice for God to 
keep me out of hell. Just about that time it seemed 
to me that all that Heaven is or all that Heaven 
means broke in on my soul, and I was flooded with 
light and glory and was in a new world. 

The people looked like angels. I never saw 
such a change in people before or since. Just be- 
fore midnight I came to myself, and I was walking 
the backs of the benches shouting and praising 
God, and the Lord only knows what I didn't do. 
Well, Glory to God forever. It never grows old, 
and is always fresh and juicy. 

What a step I took that night ! I stepped from 
nothing to everything. The next morning I went 



26 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 

up to what they call a testimony meeting. I had 
never seen or been in one before. One man got 
up and told what God had done for him and how 
he had saved him. While he was telling it I was 
so happy I had to hold to the bench to keep down. 
I waited for two or three to talk. Pretty soon I got 
up to tell my experience. I got so full I felt like I 
could ride off on the clouds. I got to hugging a 
big post under the tabernacle, everybody got to 
shouting. Heaven came down on earth and the 
rejoicing lasted for hours. When the shouting 
ceased the preacher opened the door of the church 
and I ran to join. He asked me what church I 
wanted to join. I told him the kind of one he was 
in. He said all right, and then asked me how I 
wanted to be baptised. I asked how the other peo- 
ple wanted it done. He answered, the most of 
them wanted the water poured on them. I told 
him to fix me just like all the rest. So, while he 
poured clear water on me I was shouting as loud 
as I could, and I have hardly stopped yet. 

Well, glory to God, friends ! Getting religion 
is one of the finest things in the world. The man 
who gets it is surely ahead. I would rather see 
people get religion than anything I ever saw or 
heard of in all this old world. 

Then I had ten years of struggle with the old 
man — or what is called the "ups and downs" of a 
christian life without the fullness of Christ. 

The reader will remember I was converted in 



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August, 1880. I received the blessing of a clean 
heart in 1890. 

Getting wholly sanctified does not mean get- 
ting religion over again, or reclamation from a 
state of backsliding. A regenerated man is a 
christian, and a christian is a child of God, but 
with all that, there is something in the heart of an 
unsanctified man that causes him a world of 
trouble. It would be for our good and for God's 
glory for us to confess up and go down before God 
and get the old man crucified. 

I meet with thousands of people that claim 
that they don't need anything after conversion. I 
am sure I did, and if you love me like you will 
have to love me to get to heaven, you ought to be 
willing for me to get it as soon as possible after 1 
find out there is a something in my heart that con- 
version did not cure — pride, selfishness, jealousy, 
fretfulness, pevishness, self-will, ambition, anger, 
wrath, malice — these are some of the enemies that 
are not cured in conversion, and I struggled with 
this something for ten years. 

Now, my friend, if you have never been trou- 
bled with any of these things since you were con- 
verted, I say, amen, to it; you have been more 
fortunate than I. 

When we used to meet at the little church or 
school house to have our weekly prayer meetings 
we would open up by singing, " Prone to wander, 
Lord, I feel it," "Prone to leave the God I love." 



28 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 

Then some brother would be called on to lead the 
meeting. He would throw his tobacco out of his 
mouth and say, "let us pray," then get down on 
his knees and say, "Oh, Lord, I am a sinner in thy 
sight and am not worthy to take thy Holy name 
between my sin- polluted lips. I do many things I 
ought not to do and leave undone many things I 
ought to do, and am a poor weak worm of the 
dust." As he would say, "Amen!" we would 
sing: 

"Show pity, Lord; oh Lord forgive," 
"Let a repenting rebel live." 

Have another prayer and sing : 

"I saw a way-worn traveler 
In tattered garments clad, 

And struggling up the mountain 
It seemed that he was mad." 

Then the leader would say, "who will be first 
to take up his cross and tell how he is getting 
along." Some old brother would get up and throw 
a big chew of tabacco over in the corner and say: 
"Well, brethren, I am like everybody else, I am 
having my ups and downs in life; when I would do 
good evil is present with me, and I find Jordan is a 
hard road to travel. I have had more ups and 
downs this week than I ever had in my life. I have 
been mad enough to die all week, and I want ail to 
pray for me that I may hold out to the end." Then 



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we would sing-, "Climbing up Zion's hill." And 
the leader would say: "Now come along with 
your testimonies, take up your cross; who will be 
next?" and some old sister would get up with her 
mouth full of snuff and tell of her trials, tempta- 
tions and hardships, and not one in the crowd 
would praise God for a thing in the world. We 
only went there, it seemed, to be together, chew 
tobacco, dip snuff and tell of our defeats. Not 
one would tell of a single victory he had had. 

I went on in that way several years before I 
heard there was any better way than the one we 
were living, but six years after my conversion, 
Brother W. B. Godby came to our home town, 
Alvarado, Texas, to hold a meeting. The word 
went out over the country that he was a sanctified 
men. We had no idea what a sanctified man look- 
ed like and, of course, everybody in the country 
went to hear him. He preached on hell, and said 
that all sinning religion would land the people 
right into an aw T ful hell, and of course war broke 
out in the community, and you never heard such 
tales on earth as were told on that old man. 

But he never stopped or let up. He preached 
on hell until the people screamed and held to their 
benches. He ran the meeting a month, and over 
two hundred and fifty were converted and sancti- 
fied. I went to hear him and thought I understood 
the whole matter. I thought he was crazy and 
would be in the asylum before the meeting closed. 



30 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 

He said we would have to give up tobacco or stay 
out of Heaven ; that we could not go into Heaven 
with a chew of "Star Navy" in our mouth. Circus 
and theatre-goers and horse-racers were not on 
the road to Heaven at all. This to us was a new 
doctrine — the idea of a man having to give up 
tobacco and horse racing to get to Heaven! To 
my amazement I commenced to feel like it was so 
and to my surprise I found myself under conviction 
for a clean heart, but by this time the meeting had 
closed and I had to struggle on for four years 
longer. 

The next year after Mr. Godbey's meeting Mr. 
Ben Gassaway was our pastor. The life he lived 
and the sermons he preached sealed Bro, Godhey's 
doctrine. The seed that was sown in my heart 
that year kept perfectly sound for four years. The 
devil covered the seed up with the clods of unbe- 
lief and told me every seed had rotted. 

But Bless the Lord ! On the 7th of June of 
1890 a tree of perfect love sprang up from the 
bottom of my soul with sanctification written all 
over it, grapes and pomegranates on every limb 
and honey dripping from the leaves. Glory to 
God, Holiness seed never rot! They will keep for 
many years in any climate on earth and grow, as 
well in poor climate as rich. That is one of the 
peculiarities of Holiness seed. They will produce 
an abundant harvest in the poorest soil on earth. 
If the drought ruins the corn and the boll worm 



SUNSHINE AND SMILES 31 

destroys the cotton, it doesn't affect the crop of 
Holiness at all. It grows and flourishes and yields 
a greater crop than under any other circumstances. 
I have seen Holiness seed in the mud just as sound 
as a dollar and I have seen them in the dust grow- 
ing and looking as fresh and beautiful as if they 
had been planted on the bank3 of a running stream. 
When these seed get planted once in a community 
there is no way on earth to stop it, It is like John- 
son grass — it just simply take3 the country. This 
is one of the reasons the enemies of Holiness hate 
it so bad. There is no chance to kill it out. If 
they pull one up a dozen will come up in its place. 
You see the thing that makes some people awful 
rrad makes others shout. The idea of not being 
able to kill it out nearly tickles me to death. 

Well, Glory ! 

There is something about getting sanctified a 
fellow never forgets. I remember now the morn- 
ing I went down into my field to thin corn— it was 
on Monday morning. I had preached twice on 
Sunday and told the people I was not sanctified, 
but wanted to be, worse than anything on earth. 
On Monday morning 1 rode over home real early, 
turned my pony out in the pasture, put on my 
working clothes; by that time mother had break- 
fast ready. I ate my breakfast, got my hoe and 
went to work. 1 had not been in the fie d long 
until I began to preach to myself from the text: 



32 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 

"Follow peace with all men and holiness, without 
which no man shall see the Lord." 

I felt I must have help from the Lord or I 

never could preach again • So I would pray awhile, 

thin corn awhile, and then preach a little more. I 

didn't get much corn thinned and while I prayed I 

could hear my brothers driving their teams, and 

their cultivators rattling as they plowed cotton, 

but finally I got to the place where I did not hear 

anything that was going on about, only the Devil 

telling me I never would get the blessing. At last 

I got up and stood with my hoe in my hand. My 

hoe was the last thing I turned loose. I have 

never been troubled with a hoe from that day till 

this. About the time I turned my hoe loose the 

Lord came very near me and it seemed I cotild 

hardly stand on the earth, the Lord was drawing 

so near me I could feel his presence. He just 

emptied me of everything and as burning power 

went through me and emptied me of everything. 

I could see salvation rolling over the cornfield; 

it seemed to me I could see God's face shining on 

the corn blades — the corn was up in swab tassel, 

and all over the corn seemed to be rivers of grace, 

and as the Lord went through me and took things 

out of my heart I did not know was in it, I felt that 

there was nothing in the world left of me, and a 

peace that passes understanding flowed into my 

heart — the deepest, sweetest peace I had ever 

known, it just satisfied every craving of the mind 



SUNSHINE AND SMILES 33 

and every longing of the soul; the waves became 
so great that I fell down and lay stretched out on 
the ground, while tidal waves of grace and billows 
of glory flowed through my whole being. Indeed 
it is the fullness of joy — the soul rest — the full 
assurance — perfect love — the baptism with the 
Holy Ghost — the destruction of the old man — or, 
the Second Blessing. 

Well, Amen ! 

For eleven long, weary years of toil and pain 
and disappointment — at times without money and 
no bread in the house, and thinly clad, my body 
undergoing the most excruciating pain it is possi- 
ble for a man to pass through and live. Five hun- 
dred times my arms have been pulled out of joint 
and pulled back into place, suffering with paralysis 
in my right side, at times my lungs bleeding, sub- 
ject to epileptic fits, but God is witness for these 
eleven years I have never had one doubt about the 
goodness and mercy of God and His power to save, 
sanctify and keep. 

I believe every word of the Bible is true, and 
that God loves me. Jesus died for me and the 
Blessed Holy Ghost abides with me, the angels are 
watching over me, and, glory to God, some sweet 
day I am going to meet Jesus in the clouds, and 
live with him forever. 

In 1896 I was wonderfully healed by the Lord, 
and run for five years without a break and almost 
without a pain, but last year, 1901, I gave out. The 



34 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 

dear Lord warned me almost every day for six weeks 
that I was working too hard, to stop and take a 
rest, but I did not heed his voice. I broke down 
and my old trouble returned. I have had four 
attacks in the last fifteen months, and I am at 
home now resting, praying and loving God and 
every human being on earth. I feel just now that 
there is room in my heart for every poor struggling 
son of Adam in our land. I never had more faith 
in God than I have today. I believe I will soon be 
strong enough to go on with my work. I feel like 
God will let me stay here and love people for many 
years yet. If he does not, wouldn't it be fine to have 
the blessed privilege of moving to Heaven. Just 
think of a man coming from poverty, ignorance, 
disgrace, pain, misery and woe — getting into the 
chariot and riding through the skies, and sitting 
down on the banks of the river of life. Now, I 
earnestly ask every saint of God that reads this 
book to talk to the Lord about my health. I be- 
lieve if I live a few years longer, I can love God 
and the people better and can be a greater blessing 
to the world than I have ever been. 

I only want my health for God's glory — if it is 
not for my good and His glory I don't want to have 
it. I don't mind the suffering in the least, there is 
something about a pain in the head or back that 
makes a fellow feel that he is a dependent being 
upon an independent God. Without pain we would 
not know how frail the human family was nor how 



SUNSHINE AND SMILES 35 

great God is. You sometimes see a strong, well 
man walking down the streets of the city filling his 
stomach with liquor, and pouring out his profanity 
on GodVpure air, and swearing he can whip his 
weight in wild cats ; poor fellow, he is blinded by 
the devil and led captive at his will. But bless the 
Lord, before sundown a severe pain strikes him in 
the stomach, and in a few minutes his eyes are 
opened and he sees his awful condition and goes 
to calling on God for mercy and asking his friends 
to pray for him. If you had stopped the fellow on 
the sidewalk and told him God loved him and that 
you were praying for him, he would have made 
fun of you to your face, but thank God, we can 
never get out of the bow shot of our blessed Heav- 
enly Father, and sometimes the way God can have 
mercy on us is to let an arrow fly and strike us in 
the side. How we look up into the face of our lov- 
ing Father and say "what is the matter?" and God 
replies "If I had not let an arrow fly at you, you 
would have been in hell in less than a month." 
Just think of it, if there were no more deathbed 
scenes, pain or poverty, for the next one hundred 
years — think of not another grave dug — no man 
suffering or seeing his loved ones die or suffer, to 
what extent would the whiskey element and the 
tobacco factories run. Think of the brothels run- 
ning day and night without any fear of death or 
sickness, with the luxuries of life piled up around 
them. Think of how the people of this country 



36 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 

would strut, boast and brag, and curse God to His 
face, defy heaven, burn down churches and make 
fun of religion, 

I tell you, friends, if God did not put on the 
breaks it would not be long until the D. Ds. of 
this country would hav© to acknowledge that man 
was totally depraved, and his heart deceitful above 
all things and desperately wicked. 

When God gives you a threshing you should 
be very thankful, for he will have to beat off the 
chaff and burn up the straw before he can gather 
the wheat into the garner. 



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PART FIRST. 



RAMBLING THOUGHTS. 

The reason your head don't rattle, my friend, 
is because you have lost the seed out. Don't you 
understand? 



A friend came to me not long since and said : 
"Brother Bud, my religious joy has all leaked 
out. What is my trouble?" "My!" I said, "My 
friend, you keep your mouth open all the time." 
She said "Thank you, sir," and I said "you are 
welcome." 



The preacher that can't do anything but turn 
summersets in the big dipper, shave the man in 
the moon, and cut off his hair, is a failure. 



38 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 

The preacher that comes down out of the syca- 
more tree and receives the Lord joyfully is a great 
success. 



Why will a preacher spend his time in staking 
out claims on Jupiter and Venus, when the Bible 
describes two other countries and says we are 
going to one or the other of them. 



The preacher who is constantly spitting out 
Greek roots, Latin verbs and Hebrew phrases is 
seldom ever seen with grape hulls in his beard or 
the juice on his face. 



The twin brothers of the Bible: "It shall be 
done" and "It came to pass," you find one on 
every page — one on one page the other one on the 
other. 



The promises of the Bible are very large; you 
can lie down and stretch out on them and you 
can't kick the foot board, scratch the head board 
nor touch the railing on either side. 



In looking at the promises of the Bible you 
think of an apple orchard on a hillside hanging 
full of ripe fruit; the wind blows them off, they roll 
down the hill — you have nothing to do but to pick 
them up and go on eating and praising the Lord- 



SUNSHINE AND SMILES 39 

The Lord said "The cattle on a thousand hills 
are mine," and I said, "Yes, Lord, and all the 
potatoes in the hills." He said, "Buddie, do you 
want potatoes?" I said, "Yes, Lord." He said, 
"Go to scratching." I said, "Lord, just watch me 
scratch," and when he looked at me it almost 
tickled me to death. 



I am standing on the promises, walking in His 
footprints, leaning on His everlasting arms and 
drinking from the fountain that never runs dry. 



When I was a sinner God frowned on me ; in 
my justified life He smiled on me; but, in my 
sanctified life He laughs all over my soul. 



When I was a sinner I lived on bread and mo- 
lasses; when I got converted the Lord said your 
bread and water shall be sure, and threw in streak- 
ed bacon ; but since He sanctified me He sets me 
in a glass cupboard and pitches red apples at m,e 
till I laugh myself to sleep. 



Where is the headquarters of a sanctified man? 
Why, in the vineyard of the Lord, of course. 



What is the description of a sanctified man? 
He has a level head, a sweet spirit, a big soul, a 
loving: disposition and a good heart. 



40 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 

The blessing of sanctification doesn't make an 
A. M. graduate out of a fellow, but it does enable 
him to make the best use possible of the sense 
he's got. 



You can tell a sanctified man anywhere you see 
him — he has grape hulls in his beard, the juice all 
over his face and his pockets full of pomegranates. 



If the Lord is your shepherd then you are the 
Lord's sheep, and he has a perfect right to shear 
you any time he needs wool, and you have no 
right to bleat. 



i t>* 



What a sad sight — God's lamb in the devil's 
cocklebur patch with his wool full of cockleburs. 



The religion of Jesus Christ is the principles of 
God the Father. If you claim it you ought to live 
as you think he would if he were in your place. 



When I was a preacher boy I use to tell my 
congregation that I was going to preach to their 
hearts. I thought then their hearts were very soft, 
but I have now changed my tactics and preach to 
their heads, for I have found out that men's heads 
are much softer than their hearts. 



If we can fill a man's head full of gospel truth 



SUNSHINE AND SMILES 4t 

it will soak down into his heart and break out on 
his face and change his whole life. 



A young Baptist preacher told me once that 
bapto and bap tiazo meant to dip and to plunge. 
I was a plow-boy and very hungry. I told him if 
he could show me that gra-vie, gravi and grave 
were the Greek words for good table sop I was a 
candidate. He just twisted his moustache and 
went on. You see I wasn't a Greek scholar. 



A POINT ON TOTAL DEPRAVITY. 

An old lady in the mountains of old Tennessee 
was fixing one morning to go and spend the day 
with a sick neighbor, and before leaving home she 
called up the children : Your mother has to go to 
wait on a sick woman today and I wont get back 
till night, and if you children go up stairs and look 
in the old chest and get out my pumpkin seed and 
eat them up, and if you look up over the east win- 
dow and take down my poke of striped seed 
beans and cram your noses full, when I come back 
here tonight I will beat your heads till they are as 
soft as pumpkins. She got on her old pacing 
pony and went down the road raising the dust. It 
will suffice to say, that when she came in that 
night every pumpkin seed had been eaten up and 
every bean had been planted deep in the noggins 



42 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 

of those mountain boys. Shame on the man that 
denies total depravity. 



Common sense religion means to manufacture 
sunshine and smiles and give them to a lost world. 



The man that is looking into the loving face of 
Jesus Christ never sees the dark side of life. To 
him there is but one side, and that is always bright. 



1 11 The man that has God for his Father, and 
Jesus Christ for his Saviour, the Holy Ghost for 
his abiding comforter and the redeemed saints of 
all the ages for his brothers and sisters, the angels 
for his companions and Heaven for his eternal 
home, thank God, his fortune is made. 



The man that prays louder with a spell of the 
cramp colic than he does at family prayers would 
be uneasy at the judgment. 



There are 66 books in the Bible, 1,189 chap- 
ters, 31,173 verses, 773,746 words, 3,566,480 letters, 
and every book, chapter, verse, word and letter is 
an index finger pointing to the Christ of Prophecy, 
the Christ of Bethlehem, the Christ of Calvary, 
and, thank God, the Christ that walked off from 
Mt. Olivet on the clouds, saying, "Goodbye, boys; 
I am going to prepare a place for you, and if I go 



SUNSHINE AND SMILES 43 

and prepare a place for you I will come again and 
receive you unto myself, that where I am there ye 
may be also." Do you wonder they stood looking 
up into the clouds? Why, praise the Lord, no! 



The difference between us and the Lord is, the 
Lord came to see us and we made him pay his tax 
— we went to see him and he paid ours. Bless His 
dear name! See the difference? The sinner 
doesn't serve God at all The regenerated man 
serves God through a sense of duty. The sancti- 
fied man serves God through a sense of love. See 
the difference? Which crowd are you running 
with, my friend. 



The man that is a stockholder in the clouds 
surely walks on earth and lives in Heaven. Did 
you hear what Paul said about it? He said, "For 
our conversation is in Heaven from whence we 
look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ." 
Don't you see if your conversation is in Heaven 
you must live there? 



See that man there squirting tobacco juice out 
of his mouth? He says he is chewing his cud. 
Well, hear what Moses says about it: "Any 
animal that chews his cud that has not got a forked 
hoof is unclean." 



See the man coming down the street sucking at 



44 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 

the end of an old pipe stem?— you can smell him 
fifty yards. As he goes by I think of the words of 
a young woman who said, "Lord, by this time he 
stinketh." 



Did you see that young man on the side walk, 
with a roll of brown paper in his mouth, one end of 
it on fire and something blue coming out of his 
nose? Yes! What in the world is his trouble? 
Why, he has bad thoughts, bad dreams and bad 
conduct, and he is trying to purify his brains. It 
is generally supposed he has the hollow head. 
Oh, my! What a disease! 



When a man has gold he is a gold standard 
man, when he has silver he is a free silver man, 
when he has greenbacks he is a greenbacker, and 
when he is broke he is a "pop." Bless the Lord! 
lama prohibition er. 



Money is the cheapest thing in the world. I 
suppose it is because it keeps such bad company. 



Somehow you always associate money and 
politics together. They are sort o' like the sun and 
moon — one rules by day and the other by night. 

The blessing of sanctification will not keep you 
from snoring in your sleep, but bless the Lord, it 
will cause you to wake np in a good humor. 



SUNSHINE AND SMILES 45 

If a man gets into a drunken row, and a bar* 
tender throws a beer bottle across the bar and 
knocks one of his eyes out, and in after years we 
get him converted and sanctified, the blessing of 
sanctification will not put his eye back, but it will 
enable him to wake up in the morning of the resur- 
rection with two eyes as bright as twenty dollar 
gold pieces, 

The man is a great success that can take th© 
material he has on hand and succeed with it. But 
you say "I havn't got anything to start with." 
Well, who in the world did have? Don't you 
remember when you were born you had nothing 
but your little red skin? 



The salvation that Jesus Christ purchased for 
a lost world is wonderful in its magnitude. It is as 
deep as fallen humanity, as broad as the compas- 
sion of God, as high as Heaven and as everlasting 
as the eternal Rock of Ages. 



Oh, this great salvation ! It justifies freely, 
^3anctiiles wholly, cleanses thoroughly and keeps 
sweetly. 



This great salvation is knowable, feelable, 
enjoyable, livable, but not explainable. 



What a delusion a man is under! See him in 



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a fit of anger, he thinks he has lost his temper, but 
you can see he hasn't, for it is hung up al) over 
his face. Any thing that is lost is out of sight. 
Don't you catch on? But he says, "I feel like I 
have lost something." Well, you have, my brother 
— it is your religion. Now look into your heart 
and see. 



My friend, if you are trouoled with wrinkles on 
your face, let the Lord wipe his hands on your 
heart a few times, and when you look at your face 
you will be surprised, and won't know it, and will 
wonder where it came from. Why, from Heaven, 
of course. 



I said to my congregation one morning: "My 
friends, I am glad to inform you that I have at last 
located your trouble. It is just below your collar 
bone and a little to the left of your stomach." A 
man spoke up and said, "Is it heart failure?" I 
said, "Oh, no. When you see a man gritting his 
teeth, slamming doors, knocking down chairs and 
pulling his hair, you know his heart hasn't failed. 
He is suffering with carnality. 



If conversion and sanctification don't keep a 
man sweet, get him to the altar as quick as possible, 
and get him to get religion, it will have a wonderful 
effect on him. 



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I am in the Holiness move forever, but let's 
give the devil his dues. Soured Holiness is the 
worst form of religion I ever saw, and, my friend, 
if you are troubled with it, it will kill you if you 
don't get rid of it. 



When God sanctifies a preacher he winds him 
up, sets him on fire and starts him to running, and 
he has nothing to do but to unwind, shine and 
shout. 



Four things are needful to understand the 
scriptures. 1st. Find out who is doing the talking. 
2nd. Who he is talking to. 3rd. What he is talk- 
ing about. 4th. Believe he meant just what he 
said, and the problem is solved. 



Christ said, "I will irake you fishers of men." 
Well, thank God! If we tarry for the induement 
of power and get our pentecost, pen tecostal preach- 
ing will catch the fish and clean them after they 
are caught. The trouble with our churches is in 
our revivals. We catch and string the fish and 
don't get them cleaned and they spoil on our hands. 
You see it is one thing to catch the fish and another 
thing: to clean him. 



THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO WOMEN. 
When you see a woman full of sin, fashion, 



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pride and the devil, the first thought that comes to 
your mind is, "Has she got a pretty face?" But 
when you meet with a woman with clean hands and 
a pure heart, who hath not lifted up her soul to 
vanity, nor sworn deceitfully, you never think of 
her face, but look at the beautiful life, and as she 
goes by you take off your hat and put it under your 
arm and feel like you are standing on holy ground. 



If a man's mind is located in his head, then 
some men's heads are nothing but a garbage box, 
and his mouth a second class sewerage. How dis- 
gusting he is. When you meet with such a fellow 
you feel like you needed a good bath and a few 
hours sleep. 



The first debt I ow r e this country is a good man ; 
the second, a good husband; the third, a good 
father; the fourth, a good neighbor, and if God 
will furnish the grace I will furnish the man. "For 
ye are workers together with him." See the Bible, 



That old adage "If at first you don't succeed, 
try, try again," I never did like, for the way to 
succeed is to suck 'till you get the seed. Hear St. 
John on this seed business: "For whosoever is 
born of God doth not commit sin, for his seed 
remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is 
born of God." You see, God furnishes the seed 



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and you have nothing to do but suck. Well, Glory ! 
Isn't that fine? 



A sanctified man has a shining face, an easy 
conscience, and a light heart, and is as bold as a 
lion, as patient as an ox, as swift as an eagle, as 
wise as a serpent, as harmless as a dove, as gentle 
as a lamb, and as sweet as honey. If you were to 
3lap his jaws you would get honey all over your 
hand, and as you walked away you would feel 
something sticky on your hand. Lick it off and 
get under conviction, and come back to see what 
ailed him, and find out it was perfect love. 



But you say there is nobody that can live 
where you live and live a sanctified life. Well, I 
believe it, because you are living in the kingdom 
of sin. Move over into the kingdom of grace and 
you will talk different. But you say, "I never saw 
one that lived it." Well, my neighbor, that proves 
that you have been keeping awful bad company. 
If you will change crowds you will see things quite 
different. 



It would be a great business transaction for me 
to die, for my Heavenly father has insured me for 
more than I am worth, and I can only collect the 
policy by exchanging the cross for my crown. 
Hallelujah, Amen! 



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The fellow that says he is sanctified will have 
no trouble in establishing the fact if he can show 
the fruit. To illustrate : An Irishman was on trial 
in one of our county courts. The county judge 
said to him, "Are you a married man?" The 
Irishman never opened his mouth, but proceeded to 
take off his hat, and showed a scar on the side of 
his head that looked something like a fire shovel. 
The judge said, "I accept the evidence; you may 
stand aside." He showed the fruit. 



A physician with eczema on his ankles is never 
without a call, and his services are in constant 
demand the year round, and he is never without 
employment. It is so easy for him to fulfil the 
scripture where it says, "What your hand finds to 
do, do it with all your might." 



The way to make a success of life when you 
meet with a disappointment is just drop the letter 
"d" and put "h" instead, and then see what it 
spells— H-I-S-A-P-P-O-I-N-T-M-E-N-T. Well, 
Bless the Lord 1 Don't you see that puts you in 
regular succession. 



The man is a great success in this life that can 
gather up sunshine all day and spread it out on the 
fly leaves of his brain pan, and come in at night, 
unfold the leaves and show it to his wife and babies . 



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The young woman that knows how to pray, run 
a sewing machine, cook stove, washboard, fiat iron 
and milk the cow, never jumps head-first into the 
river, because she has an easy conscience and a 
light heart, and with a smile on her face she goes 
on turning everything she touches into sunshine. 



But the young woman that can't do anything 
but look pretty, wear fine clothes, put on perfumery 
and dead birds and flirt with a little fellow blowing 
blue smoke out of his nose and driving a livery rig, 
she soon becomes disgusted with the world and 
worse with herself, life becomes a burden and a 
drag. She decides to end her miserable existence 
by jumping head-first into the river. She is 
dragged out the second day, buried the third, and 
by the fourth she is forgotten, because she did 
nothing to bless the world while she lived in it. 



If thick milk is clabber, then your cow is a 
clabber sprout, and when you milk your cow, 
properly speaking, you are juicing your clabber 
sprout. 



The most disgusting thing I ever saw was a 
man standing on a street corner, with blood- shot- 
ten eyes, a red nose, a bloated face, and a big 
stomach on him, sucking at an old pipe, with the 
smell of strong drink on his breath, and dirty 



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clothes on his body, talking about the "Mistakes 
of Moses" and the "Failures of Christianity.' * 



I have seen cows with tongues long enough to 
lick their calves through the crack of the fence. 
"Well," you say, "that is a mighty long tongue." 
Yes, but I have seen longer tongues than that. I 
have seen people that could sit in their own parlor 
and lick their neighbors all around the country. 
They would make you think of a wagon — they 
need a breast yoke to hold their tongue up. 



Two of the most unnatural looking things in the 
world: One is a backslidden preacher; the other 
is a long- tailed mule. The mule needs shearing, 
and the preacher has been sheared. See the Bible : 
"And while he slept, with his head on her lap they 
sheared off his locks." 



The reason why I had rather be a dog than a 
mean white man: The dog licks his own mouth, 
but a mean man licks his wife. 



The religion that is full of juice is full of teeth 
and a religion with teeth in it will bite, and if it 
bites it will get hold of somebody and they will 
holler, and when a fellow hollers you have him 
Located and you know where to work. 



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A juieeless religion is toothless, lifeless, power- 
less, and dead. A dead religion was hatched out 
of the old nest egg from under the mudsill of per- 
dition, and was one of the first broods that Split- 
foot hatched off. I don't know how long he set on 
the nest but I am sure he hatched every egg he set 
on. A dead religion has cursed the church, 
wrecked the faith and blasted the hopes of multi- 
plied millions of the sons and daughters of Adam. 



The most people seem to think they have the 
worst neighbors in the world, and think they could 
be very happy if they only lived somewhere else ; 
but, my friend, that is a mistake. The trouble is 
not always with the other fellow. It is not the 
place you are in that makes you happy, but the 
condition that you are in. It is not what your 
neighbors say about you ; it is what God knows you 
to be. If you stand well at headquarters, you can 
get down on your knees by your fireside and shake 
hands with the Lord. Glory to God! And of 
course you can shake hands with every neighbor 
you have, and rivers of salvation will run down out 
of the clouds and break in on your soul, and you 
will love God with a perfect heart and your neigh- 
bor as yourself. And then, my brother, you won't 
want to move, for you will have the best neighbors 
in the world, and you just can't afford to leave 
them. But you say, "Brother Bud, how do you 



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know that?" Well, I know it because I have tried 
it. 



If we were not totally depraved why would we 
be ashamed of a small head, a big foot, or a wart 
on the nose? The majority of the people of today 
are wearing shoes at least two numbers too small 
for them. The most of us are ashamed to go into 
a business house and call for a pair of shoes large 
enough. They tell us that the Chinese women put 
their babies' feet in an iron shoe, and we send 10 
cents to China to enlighten the heathen and spend 
25 cents at home for corn medicine. We send 
missionaries to teach them not to drown their baby 
girls, while we enlightened, educated Christians of 
America destroy our children before they are born. 
Oh, my friend! which side o the creek is the 
heathen on? If we were straight up and right 
down, and up right, down right, in right, out 
right and all right we would not be ashamed of 
anything but sin. The man that denies total 
depravity shows that "the trail of the serpent" is 
over him still. 



When a religious woman loses her temper, 
slams the doors, kicks the chairs over and slaps 
her baby boy on the side of the head and says to 
him, "You stinking rascal, you are just like that 
old daddy of yours," as the baby goes around the 



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corner of the table snubbing, she says, "You 
would provoke the angels; you have aggravated 
your mother this morning until I am so nervous I 
can't control myself." You see, she calls it ner- 
vousness, when the long and the short of it was, 
the old lion just got up and shook himself, and of 
course he shook the woman too. See Isaiah 
35 :8-9- 10. And when her husband, who is a pillar 
in the church and a member of the official board, 
gets mad and does and says things that a respect- 
able sinner ought not to do, and says he calls it 
positiveness, and says, "I always was of a very 
positive make-up; my neighbors and friends never 
did understand me." Well, the reason we don't 
understand you, my brother, is because you claim 
to be a christian and live like a sinner. If you will 
bring your life up to your profession it will be no 
trouble for you to make your neighbors understand 
you. The Bible says, "Ye shall know them by 
their fruit." It is a fearful thing to see a man and 
his wife controlled by the carnal mind. One call- 
ing it nervousness and the other calling it positive- 
ness. What will their children call it? 



The way to get along well with your neighbor 
is to keep the rat hole in your noggin closed. 



It takes less religion to criticize than anything 
else in the world. I have tried it, and when a 



56 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 

fellow tries and proves anything he knows what he 
is talking about. 



There is such a hollow sound about what a 
fellow says when he keeps his head open all the 
time. It sounds a great deal like a boy beating on 
a barrel with the bunghole open. Why don't he 
bring his tongue in out of the weather and shut 
his mouth? 



St. Paul was greatly troubled with a fellow he 
called "Alexander the Coppersmith/ 9 I see some 
marks of similarity between Paul and myself. I 
have been bothered with that same fellow. I notice 
he is still a great drawback to the churches. When 
I see the collectors coming back with only a few 
pennies in the hat, I know Alex, is on hand* 
When a man puts in a copper when he should put 
in 5, 10, 25 or 50 cents, he is an Alexander Cop- 
persmith. Alex, has a mighty following today. 



When I was in New England an infidel attacked 
me for preaching that there was a hell. He told 
me Lyman Abbott had proved there was no hell. 
I said to him, "Now, my friend, who on earth did 
he prove that by? He didn't prove it by me; he 
never even consulted me about it*" He looked at 
me perfectly surprised and said, "Are you the 
cowboy preacher from Texas?" I said, "Yes, I 



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came from Texas and I have seen cows out there." 
He said, "We don't need such preachers as you 
here. You ought to go to Chicago. Don't you 
know we have the brainiest men and women in the 
world here. I can produce fifty thousand of the 
brainiest men and women of the City of Boston of 
my faith." I said to him, "Yes, you have more 
brains and less manhood than any gang I ever 
saw — fifty thousand of you going in a solid platoon 
to a yawning, gaping, burning hell, where the 
devil will pour salty damnation down you. He will 
set you in a corner for a slop tub. You will be a 
laughing stock for the devil and his imps through- 
out an endless eternity." He answered, "Why, 
young man, if you could convince me there was a 
hell I would cancel my engagements to lecture 
against Christianity." I said, "My brother, I can't 
convince you. The Bible says, 'The fool hath 
said in his heart there is no God.' The probabili- 
ties are that you will never get your eyes open 
until, like the rich man the scripture mentions, you 
lift up your eyes in hell, being in torment, and you 
will want to send missionaries back to preach to 
the Bostonites, but God won't let you." 



Why will a preacher go into the pulpit on 
Sunday morning and read an essay on Socrates, 
Cicero or the Queen of England, when he knows it 
is as dry as Texas wind and as empty as a last 



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years' bird's nest? He knows it won't convict 
sinners, convert mourners, sanctify believers or 
build up the church. Such preaching never makes 
a man cry, laugh, mad or shout. In fact, it won't 
even keep his congregation awake. While he 
turns the pages of his manuscript many in his 
congregation have moved to the land of Nod, and 
the official board have consulted napper two or 
three times and report everything running smooth- 
ly, no excitement, wild-fire, or fanaticism, but the 
church in a prosperous condition and a bright 
outlook for the future. 



It matters not how many business houses close 
or how many men are thrown out of work, there is 
one class of people who are never without a job- 
that is the faultfinder and the chronic grumbler. 
They have a job the year round, and they stick to 
their bush. 



I had rather be a poor rich man than a rich 
poor man. A poor rich man has no money but 
plenty of salvation. A rich poor man has plenty 
of money but no grace. 



I heard a man one day butcher up his neigh- 
bors. I sat and meditated as he paraded their 
faults and weaknesses before me, The next day 



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the same man heard me preach. He came up with 
a big grin all over his face and said, "Bro. Bud, 
you surely butcher up the English language, old 
boy." I said, " Yes, that's what people tell on me, 
but it is so much easier on a man's conscience to 
butcher up the English language than to butcher 
up his neighbor." And he was like "a sheep 
before her shearers—dumb, so he opened not his 
mouth." 



It is wonderful how the Lord at times and 
under some circumstances can use such peculiar 
means to bless his people. I remember one morn- 
ing, on one of our leading camp grounds of Texas, 
we were having a testimony meeting. A man got 
up and told a long, dry experience, and as he sat 
down the thought came into my mind, and I said, 
"My friends, that is a Texas long horn." As I 
said it a little woman jumped up and told a red hot 
experience full of juice and fire, with a shining 
face and her little hand raised to Heaven. The 
Spirit seemed to fill me and I jumped up on the 
platform and said, " Glory to God, that is a short 
horn." As I looked at the great congregation I 
said, "This woman did not give us a herd of cattle, 
but a pitcher of cream," and it seemed the Spirit 
swept down in great waves and rolled over the 
people till they leaped, shouted, jumped benches 
and hugged each other. Sinners wept aloud and 



60 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 

ran to the altar, and it seemed to us that rivers of 
full salvation were rolling over the camp ground. 
A big fellow jumped up on a bench and said, 
"Where did you get that?" I said, "From the 
Lord, I guess, for I never had it before. " 



There is something very peculiar about the 
grace of God. When a man gets under conviction 
it is up to his ankles, when he repents it is knee 
deep, when he exercises a living faith it is up to 
his loins, when he is converted it is over his head, 
when he is sanctified he has grace to swim in, and 
when he is glorified he goes to flying. Well, 
Glory ! Isn't it grand? 



Christ said he was in the world and the world 
was made by him, and the world knew him not. 
He also taught that his followers are to be in the 
world and yet not of the world, for he said, "I have 
taken you out of the world, for the world will love 
its own and them only." So you see, friend, if 
you keep out of the world you will get into Heaven 
and if you keep out of Heaven you will get into 
Hell, so our only hope is to take the scriptural 
route. In regeneration God takes us out of the 
world; in sanctification he takes the world out of 
us. 



The religion of Jesus Christ is just good com- 



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rnon sense, that's all. If you have got it you are 
a sensible man, that's all. If you havn't got it, 
you havn't got good common sense, that's all. 
(Prov. 1:7). If you havn't got it you are on the 
road to hell — that's all. 



I have known a man to say things to his wife 
that almost broke her heart, and not have man- 
hood enough to apologize to her. A week after he 
goes to town and gats her a cheap calico dress — 
only paying a nickel a yard for it — brings it home 
and throws it down in her lap. He is trying to 
patch up a broken heart with calico. Friend, it 
won't work that way. You can't heal a \yound 
with dry goods. It isn't calico taat woman wants 
— it's a HUSBAND. 



Paul says in Romans 5:20, "More over the 
law entered, that the offence might abound. But 
where sin abounded grace did much more abound." 
The contrast, you see, is between grace and sin, 
and Paul declares that God has a greater quantity 
of grace than the devil has of sin. God has abun- 
dance of grace and the devil has a meagre supply 
of sin. He is scattering it profusely over this 
country at present, but the day is not far in the 
future when he will not be allowed to put a foot in 
our beautiful land. My Blessed Christ will bring 
the angels and they will chain him and lead him 



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away and shut him up in his dark pit. But thank 
God, grace will roll on like a mighty ocean forever. 
Well, Glory to God, it makes me just shout to 
think of it! It is the finest thing in this world. 
This is not a vain delusion of mine, but God says 
it is so, and I will believe it or die. Hallelujah! 
The real meaning of the text is just this: The 
supply is greater than the demand, or the plaster 
is larger than the sore. If you have a piece of sin 
on you as big as my hand, God has a piece of grace 
as big as a bed quilt to spread over it. Well, 
Glory ! Or to make it real plain : If the country 
in which you live has a blotch on it as big as a mud 
hole in the road, God has a piece of grace as big as 
a 640 acre farm to cover it up with. Sin is limited, 
grace is not. Sin is the offspring of the devil. 
Grace is the offspring of God. Sin can't rise any 
higher than its fountain head — and we know that 
is hell. Grace can rise as high as its fountain 
head, and that is in Heaven, and, thank God, 
Heaven is above hell. God is greater in his 
resources than the devil is in his. In proof of the 
fact. Sin will make a man curse. Grace will 
make him shout. Sin makes him hate his neigh- 
bor. Grace makes him love his neighbor as him- 
self . Sin is degrading to manhood, Grace is 
elevating. Sin will take a nice sweet boy out of 
you home, put him down in slumdom and put him 
to feeding the devil's hogs and really put him be- 



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low the brute family. Grace will go down there, 
get that boy and bring him out, wash him up, put 
clean clothes on him and make one of the most 
respectable young gentlemen in the country out of 
him. This proves that the resources of grace are 
inexhaustable. 

I will make it plainer than that. 

Now just hold your head open a minute and 
listen while I talk. I remember doing a day's 
work for the devil. I worked hard all day. I ate 
yellow corn bread and pumpkin and drank water 
out of a mud hole and slept on straw, dreamed of 
dying and going to hell, fought with devils all 
night and waked next morning tired and weary. I 
thought my liver was out of fix and I needed a 
dose of Carter's little liver pills. What a delu- 
sion! 

I remember doing another day's work, I did 
not work as hard as I did the first day. I preach- 
ed three tiaies, rode to church in a fine carriage, I 
had sirloin steak, graham toast, and celery, jersey 
butter, Irish potatoes mashed up with butter, a 
bowl of strawberries by my plate and plenty of 
rich jersey milk; at night I rolled about on goose 
feathers under blankets made of real sheep wool, 
dreamed of beautiful mountains, rivers, rainbows, 
lovely cities and angels, awoke next morning with 
my heart and liver both clean and nice. I felt 
perfectly rested and knew that while I slept the 



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angels had been fanning me with the breezes of 
heaven. I wanted to put one arm around Jesus 
Christ and the other around tne whole world and 
bring them together. As I was fixing to start the 
next morning the preacher in charge of the church 
where I had preached, put three five-dollar bills in 
my hand and said, "May God be with you, my 
brother, you have been a great blessing to me and 
my people. I am sorry we have so little on hand 
for you this morning." 

Now, reader, if you can't see a difference be- 
tween these two days' work you couldn't see 
through a hogshead with both heads knocked out. 



There are many different ways of getting an 
income; mine comes through my mouth and goes 
the same way. A man's mouth is a fortune or a 
misfortune, owing to the use you put it to and who 
you use it for. A clean mouth, consecrated to 
God, may bless the world a hundred years after 
you are*dead. God said open thy mouth wide and 
I will fill it. 



I have met so many people in my travels who 
told me they hated their neighbors' ways awful 
bad but loved his soul, I always feel a little bit un- 
easy about him. I am persuaded if you will boil 
down your hatred, skim, it and analize the skim- 



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mings you will find you hate the whole fellow, and 
John said: "If any man hate his brother he is a 
murderer," and we know that no murderer has 
eternal life abiding in him, and friend, if you are 
hating a fellow's ways it would not be a bad idea 
for you to go to the mourner's bench and at least 
take an inventory of your stock of goods. 



The difference between a preacher and a county 
judge is this: The preacher adds one to one and 
the sum is one; the judge subtracts one from one 
and the sum is two. We beat them in grace but 
they are ahead of us in mathematics. 



We are printing 10,000,000 copies of the Bible 
annually in 325 different languages. If one Bible 
is 10 inches long the 10,000,000 copies are 1,574 1-4 
miles long. Set them on edge and they would 
make a fence 8 inches high; throw into a square 
and you have a pasture of nearly 400 miles square. 



Two of the greatest enemies of my life have been 
the carnal mind and my mouth. The carnal mind 
would get up at the wrong time and my mouth 
would go off at the wrong time. If I could have 
kept a watch on my mouth it would have saved me 
so much trouble. If there was a law passed to cut 
the end off the tongues of everybody in this coun- 
try that has said an unkind word about his neigh- 



66 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 

bor, you would see this fellow packing his grip. 
This land would make you think of the confusion 
of tongues at the town of Babel. 



When our blessed Savior was on earth he work- 
ed a miracle to raise money to pay his taxes. 
Well, bless His dear name, he has been working 
miracles to pay mine for the last twenty years. 
Don't you know I love him? Of course I do! 



A religion that won't keep you sweet when the 
cow and calf get together, or the old sow eats up 
the chickens, won't oe worth paying taxes on when 
this old world gets on fire. 



The reason it is so difficult to make a book, is the 
maker is required to spread his brains out on pa- 
per; the reader will see at once that this is indeed 
a difficult task. In the first place you have got to 
have the brains, in the second place you have got 
to spread them out, and last but not le&st, you 
may not have them to spare, as times have been a 
little dull and there has been quite a demand for 
the article of late. 



To say there are no hypocrites in the church 
would be false; to say they are in my way would 
be equally false, for a christian and a hypocrite 
are not on the same road; not traveling in the 



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same direction and of course could not be in each 
other's way. The only way a fellow can be in my 
way is for him to be ahead of me, and for me to 
confess that hypocrites and sinners are in my way? 
My! I will never do it in the world. Don't you 
know if you stumble over a fellow he is ahead of 
you? You never stumble over an object behind 
you. 



CHRIST IS ALL IN ALL. 

There are some things Christ says about himself 
and some things he is to us that is very precious to 
my heart. 

"In the beginning was the Word and the Word 
was with God and the Word was God. The same 
was in the beginning with God. 

"All things were made by Him and without Him 
was not anything made that was made. In Him 
was life and the life was the light of men. 

"And the light shineth in darkness and the dark- 
ness comprehend it not. 

He was in the world and the world was made by 
him and the world knew him not. He came unto 
his own and his own received him not. 

"But as many as received him to them gave he 
power to become the sons of God, even to them 
that believe on his name. 

"Which were born not of blood nor of the will of 
the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And 



68 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 

the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." 
We see he is the Word and he says I am come 
that they might have life. He says I am the life; 
I am the light of the world. 

Then he says "I am the bread of life. This 
is the bread which cometh down from Heaven that 
a man may eat thereof and not die." 

"I am the water of life.' 'In the last day, that 
great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried say- 
ing: If any man thirst let him come unto me 
and drink. The water that I shall give him shall 
be in him a well of water springing up into ever- 
lasting life." 

He says he will give rest. When we have life, 
food and water we naturally need rest. He says : 

' 'Come unto me all ye that labor and are 
heavy laden and I will give you rest. Take my 
yoke upon you and learn of me for I am meek and 
lowly in heart and ye shall find rest unto your 
souls, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light." 

Here we find the two rests — rest from the bur- 
den of sin and guilt and the rest from self by tak- 
ing his yoke and becoming meek and lowly. Then 
comes sleep. And so he gives his beloved sleep. 
After a day's work there is nothing so refreshing 
and sweet as a few hours sleep and when we wake 
in the morning we want the way. He says: "I 
am the way." We find the way through the tomb, 
and he says: "I am the truth." He says: "I 



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am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth 
his life for the sheep." How can the sheep go in 
and out and find pasture without a door. Behold 
he says: "I am the door; by me if any man enter 
in he shall be saved and shall go in and out and 
find pasture." 

Now, back behind all of these is our redemp- 
tion. "In whom we have redemption through his 
blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to his 
riches of grace." Now, after having our sins for- 
given we need to have the sin of our nature taken 
away and we hear John say: "Behold the lamb 
of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." 

We are now ready to go in and possess the 
land and come into the inheritance of our riches. 
We find our riches in him. "For ye know the 
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he 
was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor that 
ye through his poverty might be rich. But my 
God shall supply all your need according to his 
riches in glory by Christ Jesus." 

And being in possession of these great riches 
we need wisdom to guide our affairs discreetly. 
We will come to Jesus again, in whom are hid all 
the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 

"And ye are complete in him which is the head 
of all principalities and powers. For in him dwell - 
eth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily." 

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God, is made unto us wisdom and righteousness 
and sanctification and redemption/ f 

"Well, glory to God, the next platform we 
light on is that of peace, and like all other bless- 
ings, we get them from our blessed Christ. About 
the last thing he willed us before leaving was his 
peace. "Peace I leave with you. My peace I 
give unto you. Not as the world giveth give I un- 
to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither 
let it be afraid. And the work of righteousness 
shall be peace and the effect of righteousness quiet- 
ness and assurance forever/ 3 ' 

"And my people shall dwell in a peaceable 
habitation and in sure dwellings and in quiet rest- 
ing places," for "Great peace have they which 
love thy law and nothing shall offend them," for 
"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind 
is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee." 

Then we have, "Be careful for nothing, but in 
everything by prayers and supplication with 
thanksgiving let your requests be made known 
unto God. And the peace of God which passeth 
all understanding shall keep your hearts and 
minds through Christ Jesus. 



THE TWO WORKS OF GRACE. 

It is remarkable how plain some things are 
made in the Bible and yet some people that claim 
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grace deny the two works of grace that are taught 
in the Bible. I have heard them say so often: 

"Oh, I believe in sanctification as strong as you 
do, but the two works of grace is what we deny. 
We believe that we get it all in conversion and we 
don't believe the Lord ever does a half job on a 
fellow; we believe we get everything in conver- 
sion that the second blessing fanatics claim to 
have." 

Well, now my dear friends if I can't prove to 
you out of your own Bible that you did not get 
sanctification in conversion I will obligate myself 
to sit down in your presence and just eat your Bi- 
ble up from Genesis to Revelation and lick up the 
backs with out sugar or salt on it. Now, just lis- 
ten to what your Bible says. Take the two pray- 
ers of our blessed Savior and compare them and if 
you will be honest with God and with your own 
soul and your Bible you will have to say that con- 
verting sinners and sanctifying believers are two 
different works of grace. Take the first prayer of 
our blessed Lord and see just what he says — Luke 
23-34. Now hear him: "Then said Jesus, Father 
forgive them for they know not what they do." 
Now readers if conversion and sanctification is the 
same why did not the Christ of Calvary say, Fath- 
er sanctify them for they know not what they 
do? Oh, no reader you can't think of the mob 
that nailed our Lord to the tree and gambled over 



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his coat at the foot of the cross, seeking the bless- 
ing of sanctification, and you know it. Now, hear 
the second prayer. Read John 17-9: "I pray for 
them. I pray not for the world" (or for sinners, 
as the world in this place means unsaved people.) 
"They are not of the world''— John 17-16. This 
verse proves that they were not sinners, and if you 
believe a word in your Bible from beginning to 
end you will have to confes3 that if they were not 
sinners they were christians. Christ said in the 
9th verse that he wasn't praying for the world. 
Well, if they were not sinners what did Christ want 
them to have. Just read the 17th verse and see: 
„ Sanctify them through thy truth; thy w T ord is 
truth." Now, neighbor, you have the two prayers 
offered by the Savior for two classes of people. In 
the first prayer he said, "Father forgive them;" 
In the second prayer he says, "Father sanctify 
then." Now just look at the difference between 
the two prayers and between the two crowds pray- 
ed for. The first prayer was offered for the rough 
rabble that were driving nails into his hands and 
feet, casting lots upon his garment, wagging their 
heads and mocking him while he died. The sec- 
ond prayer was offered for his disciples up in the 
upper room just after they had eaten the passover 
and he had instituted the Lord's supper, washed 
their feet and had his last conversation with them 
recorded in the 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th chapters 



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of John's gospel. These are the same men that he 
had just said had their names written in Heaven — 
Luke 10-20 — -and any fair-minded man or woman, 
black or white, anywhere in the United States, 
knows that this conversation referred to in John's 
gospel was not between Christ and a mob of sin- 
ners. Now, friend, if you can't see that one of 
these prayers was for one object and the other for 
another, just get out; your old Bible and I will lick 
her up. 



THE THREE DISPENSATIONS, 

Under the dispensation of the Father, salva- 
tion was measured to us by the cup. The Psalm- 
ist said: "Thou anointest my head with oil, my 
cup runneth over.' 9 Under the dispensation of the 
Son we had wells of salvation. Our biassed Christ 
said in John 4-14: "The water that I shall give 
him shall be in him a well of water, springing up 
into everlasting life." Under the dispensation of 
the Holy Ghost we have salvation in rivers. Christ 
said in John 7:38-39: "He that believeth on me 
as the scripture hath said out of his belly shall 
flow rivers of living water. But this spake he 
of the spirit which they that believe on him should 
receive, for the Holy Ghost was not yefc given be- 
cause that Jesus was not yet glorified." 

Everything seems to come to us in trinities or 
trios, both good and evil. We have on our side 



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the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. We have against 
us the world, the flesh and the devil. We have 
God the Father to overcome the world with, Jesus 
Christ to overcome the devil with and the blessed 
Holy Ghost to burn out the flesh with. Well, glory 
to God, they that be for us are more than they 
that be against us. 

We next notice that the grace of God comes to 
us in trios. Paul says: "And now abideth faith, 
hope and love, these three, but the greatest of 
these is love." 

Now the works of the devil are manifold in a 
threefold manner. In 1st John 2-16 we have, 
"For ail that there is in the world, the lust of the 
flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life 
not of the Father, but is of the world." Now? 
you see, friend, we have all the combined forces of 
earth and hell to fight and let's see to it at once 
that we "put on the whole armour of God, that we 
may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil 
for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but 
against powers, against the rulers of this world, 
against spiritual wickedness in high places, where- 
fore take unto you the whole armour of God, that 
ye may be able to withstand in the evil day and 
having done all to stand. Stand therefore having 
your loins girth about with the truth and having 
on the breastplate of righteousness and your feet 
shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace." 



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We next notice that there are three places of 
abode spoken of in the Bible: this world, heaven 
and hell. At present we are in this world, in a short 
time we will be in heaven or hell one. A life of 
righteousness and holiness will prepare you for a 
home in heaven with God and the angels and the 
redeemed saints of all ages, while a life of sin and 
unbelief will prepare you to spend a life with the 
devil and the lost in an awful hell. 

Then we have three classes of people : the first 
is the condemned sinner; the second is the justfied 
child of God; the third is the wholly sanctified 
christian. The sinner does not fear God or serve 
him at all; while the justified person serves God 
from a sense of duty and fear; and the sanctified 
from a sense of love and privilege. 



I know of nothing that brings greater joy to 
my heart than to know that God will trust me as 
far as I trust him. If I trust him clear up to 
Heaven he will trust me clear down to earth. If I 
will trust him all over Heaven he will trust me all 
over the earth. When we trust each other we rely 
on and confide in each other. How blessed the 
fellowship. 



Success and succeed are twin brothers and are 
the sons of Industry and Determination, and they 
have never made a failure politically, socially, 
financially, mentally or spiritually, 



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So many people have told me the churches are 
all dead, but I can't believe it; for as long as an 
institution can play cards, fry oysters or get up a 
broom drill they surely have some evidences of 
life, and as long "As the lamp holds out to burn 
the vilest sinner may return. " 



One of the greatest needs of the Holiness 
movement is more hands to put on plasters and 
fewer hands to skin. Human hides are awful 
eheap now. It may be because money is so scarce. 
I am not sure about that, as there has not been a 
great demand for human hides for the last two or 
three centuries. 

Now, the object of a plaster is to draw. You 
remember Christ said: "If I be lifted up I will 
draw all men unto me," Brother, you shake up 
your head a little and see if you can see any diff- 
erence between skinning and drawing. I have 
seen the hardest sinners of the land stand in the 
hot sun for several hours to hear about the Man 
that wore the seamless coat, while you can't keep 
a crowd thirty minutes to hear about hoofs and 
horns. Do you see any difference? 



ADAM THE FIRST. 

Adam was not born like the rest of us folks. 
He was created out of the dust of the earth about 
January 6th, in the year One. He was not a Sev- 



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enth Day Adventist for, the Lord made him late 
Saturday evening. The next day was Sunday 
and of course the first day Adam ever saw. The 
Lord rested that day ^from his work. Adam 
had not done anything and was not tired, but he 
kept the first day with the Lord. You see it was 
the seventh day with the Lord, but Eve was prob- 
ably made about January 8th in the same year 
with Adam. It is likely when Adam woke upon 
Monday morning he found Eve there. The book 
says she was made out of one of Adam's ribs. It 
has always seemed that woman had finer material 
in her than man. I suppose it is because man was 
made out of the dust of the earth and woman out 
of a man's rib. Doubtless Adam and Eve loved 
at sight. Well, why not? Who ever saw a fellow 
who did not love his own bones. Adam can truth- 
fully say he was the first man on earth who lost a 
bone. 

I suppose Adam and Eve started out in life 
with the finest prospects before them of any young 
couple that ever started in this world, but like 
many folks now- a* days, they did not run long 
until they collapsed. They sinned against God 
and lost their beautiful home in Eden. The Lord 
sent them out to till the ground, Adam had no 
idea that he was the first farmer on earth, but as 
he went to tilling the ground he felt like he was 
scratching his mother's head and to his surprise 
at every scratch he found a piece of bread, and as 



78 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 

he plowed tkrough the field Mother Earth looked 
on her first son and smiled and said: "My son is 
making his mark in the world." 



Well, Glory to God! In conversation with the 
dear Lord this morning I said "Lord where must I 
get to keep from falling?" "Why," he said, "my 
son get on the bottom." Well, Glory. "Can't a 
preacher fall from the bottom?" "No." The 
Lord said, "There is no place below the bottom." 
Well, Hallelujah! I looked around and to my sur- 
prise I found that the home of my blessed Christ 
was at the bottom. 



A CHURCH ENTERTAINMENT. 

I suppose Moses left about as spiritual a con- 
gregation as most preachers, when he went on 
Mt. Sinai and was only gone about forty days and 
to his surprise when he got back in hearing of the 
multitude, they had forsaken God and gone after a 
calf, and worse still it was a home-made calf. 
You see Aaron's calf was a kind of church enter- 
tainment affair. The first one I suppose the boys 
ever got up. The object of the calf show was to 
take the place of God and the Holy Ghost. This 
church entertain cnent was a failure, as all its suc- 
cessors have been and ended in raising a dust and 
breaking the ten commandments. 



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When a preacher says a great deal about loy- 
alty to the church his members say but little about 
holiness to the Lord. If he ts a tobacco chewer 
his members seldom; if he is a smoker they never 
shout; if he goes to the theater*they go to the ball 
room, the circus, card table and wine suppers. 
You see the shepherd feeds the flock and when 
you see the sheep you can tell what the shepherd 
has been feeding them on. No use to consult the 
shepherd. If the sheep are poor and sickly 
and their wool full of cockle burrs and Spanish 
needles, you can tell at a glance just the kind of 
pasture the sheep have been grazed on. No use 
to waste time going to look at the pasture just get 
a good look at the sheep and it sufficeth us. Now, 
reader, notice the shepherd at the annual confer- 
ence. Ke comes in with a grass sack full of wool 
and reports a glorious out look for the church in 
the future. 'Tis in the future. If God will furnish 
a man elbow grease and create for him a mule, 
he surely ought to do the plowing. 



You notice around depots, hotels and many 
public places, "No loafing allowed here." Who 
ever saw that sign on an undertaker's establish- 
ment. Ye upper and lower tens dread the black 
box and a hole in the ground at the end of your life 
for "It is appointed unto man once to die, but after 
this the Judgment." 



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To endure to the end doesn't mean to endure 
your religion. You endure a corn on your toe or a 
carbuncle on your neck. 



You need to belong to the Aid Society. You 
are needing help. 



An abundant entrance doesn't mean hub- 
bing the gate post on each side or escaping hell by 
the skin of the teeth. 



I have seen young women come to the altar 
chewing gum and fanning themselves with a little 
silk fan and say "I don't care anything about it 
myself Brother Bud. If the Lord wants to save 
me I'm willing" My! my! Sister, your head is 
clabber on both sides. 

I have heard people say "I believe in Holiness 
but I don't believe in sanctification. "They are 
like the old woman who loved mutton but couldn't 
eat sheep. She felt like she was getting wool in 
her teeth. 



How many little flirts I have seen go to a little 
dance, (a kind of a hugging school) come home at 
the break of day looking like a greasy dish rag, 
rub off the prepared chalk and paint, take off the 
false curls and want to commit suicide. 



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You can't draw on the bank for what you 
used to have, You can only check out what you 
haYe in it now. 



Some people say they can't stand Bud Rob- 
inson. Well, I'm not good looking nor brainy, 
but if you don't love me the devil will get you. 



If you blaze every tree, tunnel a hole through 
every mountain, make a bridge over every river, 
it looks like I could find the way and wouldn't just 
quit the road and go out into the woods. Well, 
my friends the Bible is plainer than that and it 
looks like you could find the way to Heaven. 



I have had folk3 make fun of me for not using 
good grammar when the only way they had their 
name in the county paper was when their father 
had paid them out of a scrape. I've had, at times, 
preachers make fun of my English when the only 
tears shed under their ministry were the tears of 
babies crying for water. My brother, if I were 
you and couldn't tree a possum I wouldn't kill the 
dog who did. 



Sanctification is free. You have to give your- 
self for it, but you are nothing and you give your- 
self (nothing) for it. God takes what you thin. 
you are and gives you sanctification. 



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The Lord wants all my sins. He said he 
would bury them in the depths of the sea. Then 
he said "perhaps Buddie will go diving some day 
and find them," so he said "I will separate them 
from him as far as the east is from the west." 
Then he said: "He may fly over there when he 
gets his golden wings," so he said "I'll beat that, 
Buddie I'll blot them out of the book of remeir - 
brance forever." 



There are so many things we common people 
don't know T , and in fact never heard of, that we 
surely ought to keep our heads open. We 
see a great college president going down the 
streets of our cities on a beautiful automobile and 
we notice a little platform on a street corner, and a 
monkey with red breeches on cutting monkey 
shines, while the boys give him sugar. We see the 
president slow up his automobile and his great 
heart seems to warm up to the monkey. . He takes 
out his family record and shows us the. very year 
that his folks and the monkey's family lived in 
the same hollow log. I tell you it makes us coun- 
try boys scratch our heads. Presently the presi- 
dent pulls the lever of his automobile and goes up 
the street at the rate of 30 miles an hour and pres- 
ently he slows up again and we notice on the cor- 
ner a Turkish boy and a cinnamon bear wrestling 
together and every time the bear throws the boy it 
nearly tickles the president to death and he says : 



SUNSHINE AND SMIEES 83 

still ahead." Again he takes out his 
family record and can show you the exact year 
that his great-great-great-grandfather was united 
in holy wedlock to Miss Cinnamon Bear. As the 
little Turk leads the bear away the president smiles 
and says: "Now just look at me and see what a 
wonderful improvement we have made on our 
family." We country boys just grin and say what 
a pity we uneducated people have lost our family 
record. We go on up the street a little farther, 
we meet a rich woman driving down the street in a 
beautiful carriage, with diamonds flashing from 
her ears, gold bands on her fingers and arms. 
She is embracing a poodle dog. We say: "Well, 
I guess she has met one of her cousins — for every- 
body knows that a woman has a perfect right to 
hug her kinfolks — and we country folks just make 
up our minds that we are not in the thing at all. 

A few months ago in one of the little cities 
in Texas where I was preaching a Methodist 
preacher sent for me to come to his study and talk 
with him. I went over at the appointed hour and 
met a very pleasant looking gentleman; looked to 
be about fifty years of age. In our conversation 
he told me he had gone through school, traveled 
abroad and read all the books, and had never 
seen, heard or felt anything that convinced him we 
Holiness people were right. He said the thing 
that we called the old man or the carnal mind did 
not exist. He said in proof of the fact: "Our 



84 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 

children were born as pure as angels and as free 
from depravity as an archangel." I told him I 
€Ould not believe my children were anything like 
angels. If my babies were a type of Heaven the 
war w r as not settled up there yet* "Well," he 
said; "Brother Robinson, you are honest in what 
you believe but your trouble is ignorance. You 
Holiness people know nothing of scholarship and 
you are under an awful delusion. You think this 
thing is so and I am sorry for you." I replied: 
"Brother, the people Fve been raised with drink 
and swear, lie, steal, chew tobacco, fight and even 
kilL Now what on earth ails my kin folks?" 

"Oh," he said, "they learned it from their 
parents." I replied, "Who did their parent learn 
it from?" 

He said they were an uneducated people; 
that he admired me for my "git up and git" and 
heart of love and zeal, but you cry over the people 
just like they were in an awful condition. I re- 
plied: "They are." 

"No," he said, "It is a delusion you Holiness 
people are under." 

I said, "you surely believe these sinners of this 
country are on the road to an awful hell," 

"No," he said, " that is your ignorance again. 
If the children of this country were brought up 
right they wonld not need anything at all." That 
he was brought up right and never needed a thing 



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on earth that we Holiness people talked so much 
about. 

I told him I was sorry I was brought up so 
poorly, but I was sure I needed everything God 
had for me. Our conversation closed late Satur- 
day evening. On Monday evening following, at a 
church entertainment, he and a young man had a 
serious racket. In less than one month from this 
time this preacher got on a drunk, painted the 
town red, sent his credentials up to the presiding 
elder and told him he had "found out religion was 
bosh/ 5 

"Now, reader, put on your spectacles and see 
if you can find any thing that would prove to you 
that the human family was out of gear. I see 
things that convince me, but I don't know much. 
Now you look over by a church racket and up the 
street and see a D. D. on a whiz and see if you 
can see anything that makes you think of angels. 



People talk to me of their good blood ; about 
their Cousin William, who was a merchant, doctor 
or lawyer. Why don't you talk about your Cousin 
John 6ome? He likely is in the pen for killing a 
negro. 



My brother, if they tell you to give up your con- 
science or give up your .church — aB you have only 
one conscience and there are many churches — just 



86 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 

pack your grip, call your dog and start and keep 
going until the Lord stops you. 

I lived by an infidel once. He was the most 
foul mouthed man and had the sweetest little chris- 
tian wife I ever saw. He would make fun of re- 
ligion most every day, when we met at the end of 
our rows at the field, but he was subject to the 
cramp colic. His wife would come over about 
once a month in great haste and say: "Bud I 
believe Bill will die this time. He's got the worst 
spell of cramp colic he ever did have. You must 
come over and pray for him." 

I'd gQ over and find him rolling .from one 
side of the bed to the other, holding his stomach 
and saying: "Oh, Lord, if there be a Lord, have 
mercy on me, if there is any such a thing as 
mercy." 

I'd get on one side of the bed and Mary on the 
other, and pray for him and hold him on the bed. 
Along toward midnight he would get so bad he 
would leave out all the "ifs" and say: "Oh Lord 
Jesus, you just must do something." He would 
finally get easy and go off to sleep. For the next 
few days when we would meet in the fields he 
would have nothing to say against religion. 
Toward the end of the week when the soreness 
began to get out of his stomach he would begin 
making fun of religion again. I would say "all- 
right old boy the Lord knows where you live and 



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He'll be around with another spell of cramp colic 
before long." He'd grin, clean off his plow and 
drive off whistling through the field, saying: "Hit 
don't amount to nothin." But inside of two years 
the cramp colic had brought him where we 
couldn't — to the altar — where I saw him stretched 
out in the straw one night, praying. You could 
have heard him a quarter and calling on his wife 
to have Brother Bud pray for him or he would be 
dead and in hell in a minute. I got down again 
on one side with Mary on the other. In a few 
minutes he was gloriously converted. He picked 
me up and hugged me and said "old boy I always 
knew there was something in it," and went shout- 
ing all over the camp ground. 



The fellow that lets his religion all go out but 
a "spark" is in a "straight betwixt two." He 
has too much to throw away and not enough to 
keep. If he stays and blows the spark he can't 
do anything else, and if he runs to get kindling it 
will go out on him. 



I dreamed one night of going to Heaven and 
eating fruit off of the tree of life as big as my two 
fists without any peeling on it or seed in it. It 
was so good it melted in my mouth. I couldn't 
eat Texas grub hardly for a month after I woke. 



"The leaves of the tree were for the healing of 



88 8UN8HINE AND SMILES 

the nations." The finest salad in the world beats 
turnip greens. 



When this old world is wrapped in a winding 
sheet of flames you will forget the "mistakes of 
Moses" and be brought face to face with your own 
mistakes and misconduct. 



GOD'S X RAYS. 

"For the Word of God is quick and powerful 
and sharper than a two edged sword, piercing 
even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and 
of the joints and marrow and is a discoverer of the 
thoughts and intents of the heart. 

"Neither is there any creature that is not man- 
ifest in his sight, but all things are naked and 
open unto the eyes of him with whom we have to 
do." Hebrews 4:12, 13. 



As long as the carnal mind remains in the 
heart of a regenerated man, he has to give the 
devil outlet. For when the christian loses his 
temper and smashes up things the devil is work- 
ing his truck patch. It is like one man owning an 
acre of ground in the midst of a large plantation 
belonging to another man. The person that owns 
the acre can go through your plantation, sink a 
shaft, start a foundry and throw mud and slag all 
over your plantation. He may cause you a great 



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deal of inconvenience, but as long as he owns a 
truck patch in your plantation he can go in and 
work his patch in spite of you, and no matter how 
fair your field he is going to have outlet. Now, 
when you lose your temper and jerk off a single- 
tree and knock your mule down, stamp the ground 
and pull ycur hair you are just giving him outlet 
and you see he is scattering mud and slag, and 
when you get mad in your home, jerk out a bench 
leg to hit your dog, grab the cat by the tail and 
throw him through the window, scold your wife 
and slap one of your children over you are prov- 
ing to the world the devil has still got an outlet 
through your farm. Do ycu think you will ever 
grow him out? 

I have seen a man in his field at work and 
becoming thirsty would call to his wife to bring 
him a drink. His wife in the house, the door 
closed and children crying would fail to hear him. 
He would call the second time when she would 
come to the door and say: "What is it John?" 
He would yell like a wild Comanche: "Where on 
earth is your ears I have hollowed for an hour, 
until my throat is cracked open," when he had 
only called a time or two. If you were to ask them 
if they believe in Holiness they would say "Oh, 
no, the Bible says there is none good, no not one, 
and I am a poor weak worm of the earth." You 
see the devil is still working his truck patch and 
getting outlet. 



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I have seen churches where they paid the 
preacher, got up conference collections, sent out 
missionary money, run an Epworth League, helped 
the Christian Endeavor and Young Mens Christian 
Association, yet lost members every year. 

Now, friend, don't you know if I was running 
a threshing machine, cooking for the hands, feed- 
ing the mules, raising a dust and burning the 
straw and were to go around and look at the spout 
and find no wheat coming out, it would be com- 
mon sense in me to quit. 

When the Lord wanted to make an impression 
on this old world that men or devils, time or eter- 
nity could not erase, he met Saul of Tarsus on the 
Damascus road and pulled him off of his little 
donkey and put him to praying. Three days later 
he shook the scales from off his eyes, charged him 
with compound lightning, wound him up and put 
him to running. The Lord seemed to take him in 
his own hand, dip him in the blood of Jesus Christ 
and write across the face of the earth: "Follow 
peace with all men, and Holiness, without which 
no man shall see the Lord/' 



The gifts and graces of the spirit and the 
weaknesses of the carnal mind are not twin 
brothers, as you might suppose. In fact they are 
no kin at all; not even third cousins, for while 
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grapes, pomegranates and flowers, freighted with 
the m >untains, lakes and rainbows of Heaven, red 
white and golden clouds, dews and showers of 
glory, the carnal mind seems to be perfumed with 
tobacco, alcohol, smoke and sulphur, filthy con- 
versation and talking, you can see a few hoofs 
and horns and broken bones scattered along the 
public highway. 



My friend, when you pray if nobody talks 
back to you it would be well for you to stop long 
enough to find out how you stand at headquarters. 
It may be possible your name has been dropped 
from the ledger, and if so you will never get 
another answer until you are represented by the 
man with the seamless coat on, with blood and 
spittle on his face and the print of nails in his feet 
and hands and a spear print in his side and a 
crown of thorns on his head, and when the Father 
looks into the face of this mangled victim for sin, 
if he is pleading for you, the great loving heart of 
the Father will be moved with compassion toward 
you and he will talk with you on any subject and 
not only that, but glory to God, He will give you 
anything he has got. 



How unselfish the Father, Son and Holy 
Ghost; neither of them ever refer to themselves. 
How different from ue fallen mortals. When we 
do anything it is I, we or us. When God the 



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Father came to us he spoke of the law; when 
Christ came he spoke of the Father; when the 
Holy Ghost came he spoke of the Son. When we 
get converted we talk about going to Heaven; 
when we get sanctified we talk about^the blessed 
Holy Ghost, for we then have Heaven in us, the 
Holy Ghost revealing to us the law as our school 
master bringing us to Christ* He reveals to us 
God as our Father; He reveals Christ as our 
blessed Savior and Sanctifier, and himself as our 
abiding guest. He makes the Fatherhood of God 
and the brotherhood of man so plain that not one 
doubt remains in the heart to disturb your peace. 
But he enables you to love God with all your heart 
and your neighbor as yourself, for the perfect love 
of God will cast out all fear and doubt and selfish- 
ness and make you like Jesus Christ, the most 
unselfish being that ever lived on the earth. So 
then if you want to show Christ to this old world 
you will have to get rid of self, for as long as there 
is any self in you the world can't see Jesus Christ. 
Remember, friend, the world don't read their Bible. 
They read you, and when you buy beefsteak the 
butcher is to feel like he is selling meat to one of 
God's sons. And now sister, what about that hat 
you bought. Do you suppose the woman who 
sold you that hat felt like she was selling one of 
God's daughters a hat? Did you act in a way to 
convince her that Jesus Christ lived in your home? 
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the Lord Almighty, and if we don't show our 
Heavenly Father to the world as we buy and sell, 
under what circumstances then are we to show 
Him to the world. 



An all -round man has two legs, two arms, two 
eyes, two ears, one mouth and one nose. His head 
is his upper end ; his feet his lower end. He comes 
to this country without being sent after. This 
country is under no obligations to him. He comes 
here as an intruder. The country has a right to 
expect great things of him. He has no right to 
expect anything of this country and all he gets is 
gratis. He is expected to wear breeches every 
day and to go barefooted every night. He should 
be a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good and 
loving husband, and further, he should be a man 
of good common sense, with a shining face and a 
grand appetite. He should have a kind word, a 
smile and a hand -shake for every fellow he meets. 
He should lie down eight hours, stand up eight 
hours and sit down eight hours out of every 
twenty -four in the year. The church and state 
have a right to demand his support; he should 
serve both cheerfully. He should be a christian 
worker and a man of faith and great pity. He 
should believe the Bible, love God, serve Him and 
his country, walking in the light, leaning on the 
everlasting arms, drinking from the fountain 
that never runs dry and go to Heaven in the end. 



94 SUNSHINE AND SMILES 

One thing I have found out by watching you 
all: a man don't eat hog long until he begins to 
grunt. Does it make him sick? I don't know 
what ails you. You may become hoggish. 

One of the ways to succeed in life is when you 
meet with what the devil would call an impossi- 
bility is to take the hand spike of faith and turn 
the thing over and you will find a gold mine under- 
neath it. You can just fill your pockets and go 
on shining and shouting. When jou meet with a 
difficulty just put the saddle of faith on him and 
ride him to the city of industry and tie him up to 
the pott of success and pray down an old time 
revival that will cause men to run across Jordan, 
shout down Jericho, kill Achan and march up and 
take Ai. When you meet with a "surrounding 
circumstance" and the enemy says, k% Now, just 
look at that," God will enable you to take the key 
of faith and walk up face to face with your cir- 
cumstances, unlock the doors and go into his 
treasuries and you will find an old fashion 
Tennessee cupboard filled with the good things of 
life. Oh yes, you will find grapes, pomegranates, 
old wheat and barley, milk and honey on every 
shelf, and you will have nothing to do but lick 
honey and drink milk, and shout while your 
enemies lick the dust and flee before you. 

Well, Giory to God, who said the devil was 
ahead? Not I. Well bless your soul, don't you 



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hear him say, "Fear not little flock it is your 
Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." 
Ble?- the Lord, a kingdom surely puts man ahead 
of his circumstances. But some one may say, 
"what is a kingdom?" Let the Lord answer. 
Hear him. Romans 14:17. "For the kingdom of 
God is not meat and drink, but righteousness and 
peace and joy in the Holy Ghost." Well, hallelu- 
jah a man with a kingdom has a fortune in two 
worlds; he is above sin and the devil in this and 
a stockholder in the New Jerusalem and is a mem- 
ber of a great joint company that is known as the 
Upper Tens of the clouds, who make headquarters 
on the banks of the river of Life, dwelling under 
the rree of life, which yields her fruit every month 
in the year and its leaves are for the healing of 
the nations, who go with the noise of many waters, 
with the speed of lightning and in company with 
the angels and Jesus Christ at the head of the 
band. Praise the LoH the fellow that is seeking 
seed is surely a flying. 



My friend, if you are making a bee line for 
the New Jerusalem, the greatest accusation that 
will be brought against you at the judgment will 
be that you saw somet fiing in every human being 
worth dying for. 



The devil said to me one day "The Lord is not 
able to do what you ask." I just turned to my 



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Bible and read: "Who hath measured the waters 
in the hollow of his hand and meted out Heaven 
with a span and comprehended the dust of the 
earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in 
scales and the hills in a balance. " Had you con- 
sidered the greatness of God and his ability to 
meet our necessities? I asked. He sneaked away 
and wasn't hanging around my premises again 
for a week. 



As a people we have done many exploits. We 
have bridged the rivers, belted the mighty deep 
with our ocean liners, tunneled through the great 
mountains, harnessed the lightning and put it to 
work, but just ahead of you, my friend, is a little 
stream without a bridge or steamer. You can't 
swim across it but will have to wade through it. 
It is so cold it will freeze you to death. It is so 
dark you can't see your way. When you reach 
the banks of this stream you may see a torch 
light procession, shining faces and hear sweet 
music on the other side. If so it will have a won- 
derful effect on the chilly waters as you wade 
through, but reader, it may be possible that when 
you reach that stream you may hear wails and 
shrieks of the lost and hear the victorious shouts 
of devils as they drag their victims through the 
muddy waters of this awful river of death. "Now 
is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of 
Salvation." 2nd Cor. 6:12. 



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A TYPE OF CHRIST AND THE CHURCH. 

I have seen the husband leave his home in one 
of our little towns and go of£ to the city to work 
and sometimes stay several months preparing a 
home, and finally he wires his wife he will be there 
on the next train. His wife gets the message and 
her heart all aglow to think of the return of her 
husband, she gets the children ready, and at 
least an hour before train time, she has every 
child washed and dressed in their best clothes and 
is off to meet the train. She takes the baby in her 
arms, leads the next least one and puts two or 
three little fellows before her and starts in a trot 
for the depot. Every few steps she is hurrying 
them up, saying: "come on sugar pie papa is 
coming home/' and her little heart is not concerned 
about anything but reaching the depot. As she 
goes down the street the dressmaker calls out 
to her: "Silk dresses are two dollars cheaper 
than they were last week," but she pays no atten- 
tion to silk dresses, she is going to meet her hus- 
band. A little farther down the street another 
woman calls out, "Hats, fifty cents off today. 
Ostrich feathers seventy-five cents a piece," but 
she don't hear anything that is going on in the 
business world. She is dead to everything but 
meeting the bridegroom. She reaches the station 
and says to the porter: "When is the train due?" 
He answers "In ten minutes." She walks the 



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floor, looks out at the windows and listens for the 
train. The ten minutes seem like hours. As the 
train whistles she is on the platform with everyone 
of the babies, telling the little fellows to wave 
their handkerchief at the train, that papa is com- 
ing home. As the train pulls in her face shines, 
her eyes sparkle, and she says to the children do 
you see him? He is looking out of the window. 
The porter says, "stand back and give the passen- 
gers a chance to get off," but she pays no atten- 
tion to the porter; she is going to meet her hus- 
band. As he steps to the platform she is in his 
arms with all of the babies, and one smile from 
him and a few kind words is worth more to her 
than all the silk and feathers in the world. She 
has met the ideal of her life and is satisfied. 

Now, friend, how different this picture would 
have been if while her husband was away she had 
proven untrue and had gone to flirting with the 
world. Do you suppose she would have rejoiced 
when she received the telegram? Or do you think 
she would have gone to the depot with the chil- 
dren? Not much. She would have sulked around 
and said "it disturbs my peace to hear of his com- 
ing back." Yes she would rather hear of anything 
in the world than to hear of the return of the 
bridegroom. Why? Because she has proven 

untrue. 

So with the church. When the sanctified 

bride of Christ hears of his return her face shines 



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and she begins to dress up the children and sing- 
and shout and look for the train. But take the 
unsanctified part of the church and say anything 
to them about the second coming of Christ and 
you have trouble on your hands. The look of dis- 
satisfaction and unrest mingled with contempt and 
disgust proves clearly to your mind the bride has 
lost her first love and has gone to flirting with the 
world. If you belong to the church and the church 
belongs to Christ and he has gone to prepare a 
home for his bride, on what grounds could you 
reject his return and retain your salvation, for He 
said: "If I go and prepare a place for you I will 
come again and receive you unto myself. Where 
I am there ye may be also and whither I go ye 
know and the way ye know." 



'Equal rights to all men and special rights 
Christ knocks at my door here and I 
knock at his door over there. If I open to Him 
here Ha will op3n to me there. Isn't that fair? 



The Holy Ghost is God's officer in the world, 
trying to arrest the sinner and bring him to Jesus 
Christ, who is the judge of the quick and dead, and 
the judge will pardon every sinner that will yield 
to the officer and come to him for trial, 

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SOME BIBLE CHARACTERS. 

Adam sinned and lost Eden. 

Cain was the first murderer. 

Enoch walked with God and was translated 
and was the father of the oldest man that ever 
lived. 

Methusalem lived to be nine hundred and 
sixty-nine years old. 

Noah built the ark and escaped the deluge. 

Abraham offered up Isaac and was the friend 
of God and father of the faithful. 

Lot separated from Abraham, pitched his tent 
toward Sodom, fled from tne burning city with the 
loss of everything but two children. 

Isaac was the father of the first twins recorded. 

Jacob was the father of the twelve patriarchs. 

Joseph was the type of Christ; the beautiful 
dreamer. He wore a coat of many colors. He 
was sold by his brethren for twenty pieces of 
silver, the price of a slave under age. He served 
fourteen years in Potipher's prison, came out to 
rule Egypt, the greatest nation then in the world. 

Moses led Israel out of Egyptian bondage; 
was the meekest man that ever lived. He died on 
Mt. Nebo and was buried by the Lord. We have 
no news of his coming back for fourteen hundred 
and fifty years when he came down and spent the 
night with the Lord on the Mt. of Transfiguration. 



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Joshua and Caleb spied out the land of 
Canaan. 

Caleb said "we are well able to overcome it; let 
us go up and possess it," but the other ten preachers 
said we be grass hoppers in our sight and in their 
sight. 

Joshua led Israel through Jordan into Canaan, 
blew down Jericho with the ram's horn, killed 
Achan, took Ai and ruled Israel twenty-four 
years; died, being a hundred and ten years old. 

Shamgar killed six hundred Philistines with 
an ox goad. 

Deborah was the first woman that ever ruled 
Israel. 

Balaam was the only man that ever owned a 
talking donkey. 

Gibeon took three hundred men with twenty 
pitchers and lamps in them and broke the pitchers 
and put to flight the Midianites that were like 
grasshoppers for multitude. 

Samson caught three hundred foxes, set 
their tails on fire and turned them loose in the 
Philistines' corn fields and bum#d them up ; he slew 
a thousand Philistines with the jaw bone of an ass; 
he broke the cords and withes, pulled up the gate 
posts, and ran away with the loom swinging to the 
locks of his head, but he backslid and his enemies 
bound him and put out his eyes and made him 
make sport for them. 

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him out to make sport for the people. Samson 
with his eyes open was a terror to his enemies , 
with them out he made sport for them. So with 
the preachers of all ages. 

Samuel's mother lent him to the Lord when he 
was weaned and he never departed from the house 
of the Lord. From the time he was six years old 
the Lord revealed his secrets to him. 

Saul, the son of Kish, was the first King of 
Israel. He was head and shoulders above his 
brethren. He was a great warrior and chos@n of 
God, but forsook the Lord, sought witchas and 
committed suicide. 

King David succeeded Saul as King of Israel 
and was a man after God's own heart. He slew 
Goliath, the Philistine giant, with a pebble from 
his sling. He was the greatest general the world 
ever saw and the sweet dinger of Israel. 

Solomon, the son of David, was the wisest man 
that ever lived; ruled Israel in the time of his 
father, and was chosen of God to build the Temple ? 
the only house we have any record of that was 
ever built without the sound of a hammer. 

Isaiah was the gospel preacher of the old dis- 
pensation and wrote the obituary of Jesus Christ 
seven hundred and twelve years before he was 
born. History says he was a martyr for his faith 
in God and was sawed asunder. 

Jeremiah was the weeping prophet and saw 
the church in a state of apostasy and compared it 



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to a piece of clay in the hand of the potter that 
was marred on the wheel. The elders became en- 
raged and cast him into the dungeon and he sank 
down in the mire and was lifted out by an Ethi- 
opian . 

Ezekiel was one of the greatest prophets of 
the old dispensation. The modern preachers tell 
us they get ail the inspiration they need from the 
faces of their congregation on Sunday morning, 
but suppose Ezekiel w r ould have depended upon 
the inspiration he got from his congregation. His 
sermon surely would have been dry, for he had 
nothing to begin with but a valley of dry bones, 
and even the Lord said "Son of man can these 
bones live?" And he said, "Lord God thou 
knowest." He was blessed with the privilege of 
seeing the river of Life flowing out from beneath 
the throne of God. 

For a living faith in a mighty God, Daniel and 
the three Hebrew children have never been sur- 
passed. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego walked 
through the burning fiery furnace and came out 
without the smell of fire. The reason they did not 
burn ; they had been burned out. Daniel read the 
"hand writing on the wall," revealed to the King 
his wonderful vision, staid all night in the lion's 
den and came out without a scratch, all because 
he had purposed in his heart not to defile himself 
with meat from the King's table. 

Hosea was one of the minor prophets and a 



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sweet writer in Israel. He wrote a beautiful letter 
to a backslidden church, but she didn't repent. 

Joel only wrote a short sketch — three chapters 
—but he had the privilege of looking down the 
stream of time eight hundred years and seeing the 
mighty pentecost flooding the world with the Holy 
Ghost. 

Amos writes the necessity of God's judgments 
against Israel and the certainty of Israel's desola- 
tion, and pictures the famine that was to be in the 
land, not for bread or water but for the hearing of 
the words of the Lord. 

Obadiah only writes one chapter, but he 
preaches a mighty sermon on the pride and deceit- 
fulness of the human heart. 

Jonah has a mighty following today. The 
Lord told him to go to Ninevah but he started to 
Tarshish. As disobedience brings trouble, so he 
didn't run far until he was swallowed by a whale. 
He traveled three days and nights in the mighty 
deep without a ship. He finally made the landing 
and started for Ninevah. The last we heard of 
him he was> under a gourd vine pouting because he 
got the whole city to the mourners bench and God 
wouldn't destroy them, although God delivered him 
when he found an altar of prayer in the bosom of 
the deep. 



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There are whales on every side 

With their mouths open wide. 
You'd better look out my friend 

A whale will swallow you. 

The vision of Micah is beautiful. He looked 
through the telescope of time for more than seven 
hundred years and saw the glory of the church, 
the birth of Christ, his victory over his enemies 
and the church's final triumph. 

Nahum was blessed with a two -fold vision of 
Christ. He saw him in his first and second com- 
ing. In his first vision he says "Behold, upon 
the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good 
tidings; that publisheth peace/' In his second 
vision he looked down through the ages and saw 
the Salvation Army with their red jackets on, gird- 
ling the earth, and the electric cars flying through 
the streets and calls this the day of his prepara- 
tion" i. e. "The shield of his mighty men is made 
red, the valiant men are scarlet. The chariots 
shall be with flaming torches in the day of prepar- 
ation and the fir tree shall be terribly shaken. 
"The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall 
jostle one against another in the broadways; they 
shall seem like torches; they shall seem like the 
lightning." Chap. 2: 3, 4. 

Habakkuk was not only a great Holiness 
preacher, but one of the greatest temperance lect- 
urers of his day and a believer in the Millennial 



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sign of Christ. He had the kind of Holiness that 
goes clear through with the Lord and didn't 
depend upon circumstances for his experience. 
"Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither 
shall there be fruit in the vines. The labor of the 
olive shall fail and the fields shall yield no meat. 
The flocks shall be cut off from the fold and there 
shall be no herd in the stalls." 

"Yet I will rejoice in the Lord. I will joy in 
the God of my salvation." 

"The Lord God is my strength and he will 
make me to walk upon mine high places." 3: 17, 
18, 19. 

If the fig tree doesn't blossom he will have no 
figs. If the vines don't bear he will have no 
grapes. If the olive fails there will be no oil, and 
the fields yielding no meat, will leave him, literally, 
without bread. If the flocks are cut off ther® is 
no milk and butter and when there are no herds in 
the stall there is no meat, yet he means to rejoice 
in the God of his salvation. You see he is deliv- 
ered from this world. 

As a temperance lecturer he is hard on the 
saloon keeper or those who serve wine on their 
tables, for he says "Woe unto him that buildeth a 
town with blood, andestablisheth a city by iniquty. 
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that 
putteth the bGttle to him and maketh him drunken 
also. Thou art filled wtth shame for glory, and 
shameful spewing shall be on thy glory." 



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Zion, and Christ as the " Branch." The golden 
candle sticks, with his seven lamps; the two olive 
trees standing by it. The flying roll the four 
chariots; the two mountains of brass and the 
Kingdom of the Branch, or the reign of Christ. 

"And the Lord shall be King over all the 
earth. In that day shall there be one Lord and 
his name one." He says in chapter 14: 9, and "In 
that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses 
Holiness unto the Lord, and the pots in the Lords 
house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yea 
every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be 
Holiness unto the Lord." 14: 20, 21. 

He saw worse cranks about Holiness than we 
are. 

Malachi was the last prophet of the Old Bible. 
He finished his prophesies three hundred and 
ninety- seven years before Christ and left us to 
grope our way in darkness for nearly four hundred 
years. In the first and second chapters he gives us 
the picture of a backslidden church and priests 
offering polluted bread and the blind, lame and 
sick as sacrifices. In the third chapter he 
shows us the whole nation robbing God of tithes 
and offerings, and promises if they will bring them 
in, he will bless them until they can't contain the 
blessing, opening the windows of Heaven and 
pouring it out upon them. He also describes in 
this chapter the fore-runner of Christ, the day of 
Pentecost and the sanctifying of the preachers. In 



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"Because thou hast spoiled many nations all 
the remnants of the people shall spoil thee, be- 
cause of men's blood and for the violence of the 
land." He believed Jesus would come conquering 
and to conquer. "For the earth shall be filled 
with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the 
waters cover the sea." To his broad statement 
concerning the Millennium, see second chapter 
Habakkuk. 

Zephaniah calls Jerusalem to repentance, 
exhorts them to wail for the salvation of Israel. 
In his last chapter he breaks forth in rejoicing and 
puts the daughters of Zim to singing and shouting 
saying: "For the Lord thy God is in the midst of 
thee. 5 ' 3: 17. 

Hgagai declares that because the people live 
in good houses and failed to build the Lord a 
house that they should eat and not have enough, 
drink and not be filled, clothed and not be warmed. 
They should earn wages and put them in bags 
with holes in them, because of his house that was 
waste and they ran every man to his own house. 
He would shut up the Heaven from dew and the 
earth from bringing forth fruit and would call for 
a drought upon the land. Upon the mountains, 
land and oil, upon men and cattle and all the 
labors of their hands. This should be a warning 
to all God's people to look after his house first. 

Zephaniah was the greatest of the minor 
prophets. In his visions he saw the redemption of 



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verse three he beautifully describes the latter. 
''And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver 
and he shall purify the sons of Levi and purge 
them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto 
the Lord an offering in righteousness. " Malachi 
was surely a Holiness fellow from the way he 
believed in testimony. He declares that "they 
that feared the Lord spake often one to another 
and the Lord hearkened and heard it and a book 
of remembrance was written before him for them 
that feared the Lord and that thought upon his 
name." 3: 16. In the fourth chapter and second 
verse he describes the people of God as calves of 
the stall. "But unto you that fear my name shall 
the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his 
wings, and ye shall go forth and grow up as calves 
of the stall." Thank God for the blessed privilege 
of being stall-fed calves. 



It is Christ-like to see something in the other 
fellow that is better than the things you see in 
your own self. 



It is a hopeful sign to see a fellow disgusted 
with himself but satisfied with Christ. 



The reason Christ paid such an enormous 
price for you, my friend, is because you are to 
live with him forever. 



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The man that is satisfied with the world is 

without God. The man that has God doesn't need 
the world. 



We are all pilgrims, and a pilgrim is a travel er ? 
and every traveler has his companion for life — the 
Holy Spirit or the evil spirit. My friend, which is 
yours? 



A good way to get along with the other fellow 
is to eat bread you can smell perspiration on and 
you will have the problem about solved. Do you 
catch on? 



If the church is dead and I keep on fighting it 
I prove to the world that I still have faith in it 
being resurrected, or I prove to the mind of every 
thinking man that I am diseased just above the 
ears. 



GOD'S ABILITY TO SUPPLY OUR NEEDS. 

"And God is able to make all grace abound 
toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency 
in all things, may abound to every good work." 
2nd Cor. 9: 8. 

There are enough "alls" in this scripture for 
every shoemaker in the world to have one. God 
stands behind every one of them, and they are all 
pointed toward you. A great many people do not 



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think He is able to supply all their needs, but I 
believe he is, and I want to talk about the abun- 
dant supplies He has on hand. He is "able to 
make all grace abound toward you ; that ye, always 
having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to 
every good work." 

Now let us see if He is able to do for us exactly 
what is needed. The first thing we need, as a 
lost world, is God's mercy. Has he a plentiful, or 
a meager supply? The Book tells us that He 
has great quantities. Peter writes to the "elect 
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, 
through the sanctification of the Spirit, unto 
obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus 
Christ, grace unto you and peace be multiplied. 
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus 
Christ; which, according to His abundant mercy, 
hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the 
resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an 
incorruptible and undefiled, and that fadeth not 
away, reserved in Heaven for you, who are kept 
by the power of God through faith unto salvation 
ready to be revealed in the last time." 1st Peter 
1: 2-5. 

Notice in the third verse where He speaks of 
His abundant mercy. That abundance is some- 
thing like the Atlantic Ocean, or the Rocky Moun- 
tains, or the prairies in Texas. You ask, "How 
big are those prairies?" Well, there's hardly any 
end to it. I can get in at my door and ride hun- 



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dreds and hundreds of miles and see nothing but 
prairie land. And that is the way God talks about 
his mercy. 

Is there anything else we need? What would 
we do if we had nothing else but mercy? Think 
what pardon means to a world condemned. With- 
out it what would have become of me? So God 
likes mercy and pardon, and they make a fine 
composition. 

Isaiah says: "Seek ye the Lord while he may 
be found; call ye upon him while He is near. Let 
the wricked forsake his ways and the unrighteous 
man his thoughts; and let him return unto the 
Lord and He will have mercy upon him; and to 
our God for He will abundantly pardon.'* Isaiah 
55: 6-7. And he goes on to say in that chapter: 
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither* 
are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as 
the Heavens are higher than the earth, so are my 
ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts 
than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down 
and the snow from Heaven and returneth not 
hither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it 
bring forth bud, that it may give seed to the sower 
and bread to the eater. So shall my word be that 
goeth forth out of my mouth ; it shall not return 
unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I 
please, and shall prosper in the things whereto I 
sent it. For ye shall go out with joy, and be led 
forth with peace; the mountains and the hills shall 



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break forth before you into singing, and all the 
trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead 
of the thorn shall come up the fir tree and instead 
of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree, and it 
shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting 
sign that shall not be cut off." 

Drop back to the tenth verse. "As the rain 
eometh down and the snow from Heaven, and 
returneth not hither, but watereth the earth and 
maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give 
seed to the sower, and bread to the eater." Here 
let us stop a moment and think of the greatness of 
God. He has undertaken to feed this world. The 
whole human family, with all the birds and 
beasts, fish and insects, would all be dead in 
twelve months if the Lord did not produce enough 
food for them. For everything in the world is 
within twelve months of starvation. 

If the Lord did not create anything 
else everything in the world would be eaten 
up in twelve months. Look at the fowls; where 
do they get their food? And the people of the 
earth. It must take at least nine hundred thous- 
and loaves of bread a day to feed this town of six 
hundred thousand inhabitants, and about six hun- 
dred thousand pounds of meat. "Where are you 
going to get this great quantity of food? The peo- 
ple of the land are complaining of the drougth and 
the shortness of the crops, yet our markets are 
groaning under their burdens of meat and bread. 



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And where do we get the material to make cloth- 
ing for this world? Why, the Lord God has cre- 
ated it. There isn't a man in the world with 
brains or skill enough to make one Irish potato, 
or the naterial to make one pair of breeches. 
Now you idfidels, agnostics and skeptics go and 
butt your brains out against the wall and get out 
of the way. If seed potatoes were lost tonight 
there isn't an infidel that walks the earth that 
could make an Irish potato and put the gertn of 
life into it. God has to make it, and He can do it. 
He said: "Let there be light, and there was 
light." And He said: "Let there be potatoes," 
and they came rolling out from under the hills. 
We have a very poor conception of the ability of 
God. We think such men as McKinley and Bryan 
great men. Why, God is running the world; yes 
and ten thousand other worlds bigger and greater 
than this. 

Now, He has an abundant mercy and pardon 
for a lost world, and he says he is able to make all 
grace abound toward you. Isn't He doing this? 
If you don't love him tonight, I beseech you as an 
honest man to lay down your foolishness, or quit 
eating his bread, sleeping on his beds, wearing 
his clothes, and talking about him, as you think, 
behind his back. He is looking at you. In Gen- 
isis 16: 13 we read, "Thou God seest me," and in 
Hebrews 4: 12 it says, "The word of God is quick 
and powerful and sharper than any two-edged 



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sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of 
of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, 
and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of 
the heart." Then if you will keep these two 
thoughts before you, you will quit sinning tonight. 
Every sin you commit you will have to meet it 
somewhere, and settle for it. Render unto Caesar 
the things that are Caesar's and unto God the 
things that are God's. So said our blessed Master. 
He knows how you live and he will show you 
every act of your life, and you will have to settle 
for it somewhere. If not here, at the judgment, 
and then it will be too late to make restitution. 

At the great convention in Chicago, where 
there were a thousand conversions and sanetifiea- 
tions, men paid from a nickle to twelve hundred 
dollars in making restitution. Boys paid a nickle to 
the streetcar company for a stolen ride, and people 
paid up old debts, and more than twenty -five 
hundred dollars were paid back of stolen money. 

Last summer at Sunset, Texas, a converted — 
yes a sanctified — man had something to straighten 
up. About fifteen years ago he stole a water bar- 
rel, and had forgotten all about it. But he went 
out into the woods and got down to pray when he 
heard a racket, and looking up, saw a water barrel 
rolling down the hill at him. He said, "Lord 
what's the matter with me?" And he supposed 
it was an imagination, and went further down 
the hollow and began to pray again, when he 



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heard a racket like a span of horses running away 
and he looked up and to his surprise it was the 
water barrel rolling down again. And then he 
remembered that he had stolen a water barrel from 
his neighbor about fifteen years before that. 
He came back to the camp ground and confessed 
it and sent the man one dollar for the barrel and 
ten per cent interest. And he shouted all over the 
camp ground. That wasn't much you say. No, 
but it took that to ease his conscience. You've 
got to settle here in this country. It's much easier 
to settle here than there. But I started out to 
ghow all that God could do for us. We read in 
Romans 5 :16, "For if by one man's offense death 
reigned by one, much more they which roceive 
abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness 
ghall reign in life by one Jesus Christ." This 
shows that God has an abundance ol grace. And 
in the 20th verse, we read: "Where sin abounded 
grace did much more abound." This shows you 
law and grace. The law is like an electric light 
to light up the city. A man is wandering in the 
darkness, and he don't know where he is at nor the 
direction he is traveling, but suddenly the great 
electric light flashes out over his head and it 
locates him. It shows him exactly what part of 
the city he is in, and the direction he is traveling, 
and the filth and mud on the streets; but it has no 
power to stop him and turn him around and start 
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takes the place of the law. The law will locate 
and show you just where you are, and through the 
law He can reveal to us the exceeding sinfulness 
of sin, and the exceeding richness of grace. That 
is a beautiful thought: "That where sin abounded, 
grace did much more abound. " There is more 
grace than sin. The plaster is bigger than the 
sore. The supply is greater than the demand. If 
there is a piece of sin on you as big as my hand the 
Lord has a piece of grace as big as a bed quilt to 
spread over it, or if there is a spot in your com- 
munity as big as a mud hole in the road God has a 
piece of grace as big as a six hundred and forty 
acre farm to spread over it. So now we see he 
has an abundance of mercy, of pardon and grace. 
And that brings us to another thought. Go to 
Titus 3: 5-6 and we read: "Not by my works of 
righteousness which we have done, but according 
to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regen- 
eration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost, which he 
shed on us aoundantly through Jesus Christ our 
Lord." He said he would shed the Holy Ghost on 
us abundantly, and would cover us with the shadow 
of his wings, and give us a river to swim in. We 
read in the forty -seventh chapter of Ezekiel that 
he saw a river coming out from under the throne 
of God, and he undertook to measure it and he 
measured a thousand cubits and it was up to his 
ankles ; and he measured a thousand cubits further 
and it was up to his knees; and he measured a 



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thousand cubits further and it was up to his loins; 
and he measured a thousand cubits further and it 
was a river that no man could cross and he had 
water to swim in. God has an abundance of just 
such things as you and I need, and some of you 
go around with a hungry heart and a sad face 
when you ought to have a shine on your face. 
My friend, why don't you throw away your spoon 
and jump into the river and let the Lord satisfy 
the cravings of your hungry soul? When 1 was 
seeking the blessing of sanctification, I would 
pray for the Lord to come in all of his might and 
power, and to open the windows of Heaven, and 
pour out floods of grace upon my soul, but I didn't 
know how great God was and how small I was. I 
talked to the Lord as though it would take all 
Heaven to satisfy me, but when the Lord looked at 
me it nearly tickled me to death, and he just 
touched me and I had to holler, "Hold on a min- 
ute." It seemed that God wasted enough grace 
on me to save everybody in Texas. Such great 
billows rolled over my soul that it seemed that 
rivers of salvation ran out of the clouds. It seem- 
ed to me that I was a minnow in the Atlantic 
ocean. It is beyond the comprehension of man. 
You just as well try to dip the Atlantic ocean dry 
with a tea spoon as try to exhaust the resources of 
God's grace. 

We next notice that God has an abundance of 
life. Our blessed Lord said in John 10: 10: "The 



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thief cometh not but for to steal, and to kill, and 
destroy; but I am come that they might have life, 
and that they might have it more abundantly." 
You see you get life in conversion, and in sancti- 
fication you get the life more abundant. We don't 
know what we have got when we tell people we 
are sanctified. It will roll on through the cease- 
less ages and will shine, and will get deeper and 
richer and sweeter. The blessing of sanctification 
is as deep as the demand of fallen humanity, and 
is as broad as the compassion of God, and as high 
as Heaven, and as everlasting as the Rock of 
Ages, and as sweet as honey, and will fix you up 
for two worlds. 

When you get sanctified you actually live in 
the 37th Psalm. He says in the 7th and 8th 
verses: "How excellent is thy loving kindness. 
O God! therefore the children of men put their 
trust under the shadow of thy wings. They shall 
be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy 
house; and thou shalt make the drink of the rivers 
of thy pleasures." This brings you under the wings 
of God himself. Could you be in a better place? 
How much better do you want? Under his wings, 
in a house of fat things, drinking from a river of 
pleasure. A river is not a creek, nor is it a spring 
branch. Just think of a branch widening out and 
making a creek, and then being turned into a 
river. Think of a fellow drinking from the Missis- 
sippi river and looking for the hole. Why you can't 



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miss it. It don't say that the river is as big as the 
Mississippi, and it don't say that it isn't. I 
believe it is greater. I believe it is big enough for 
the whole world to drink from, and it reaches from 
Adam clear down to Bud. Isn't that wonderful? 
Get under his wings and into his house of fat 
things. That don't mean oyster soup and ice 
cream suppers and strawberry festivals; but where 
God lives and rules and reigns, and peeple are 
filled with a flood of divine love. That's the river 
of pleasure that abundantly satisfies. That is the 
blessing which the world is seeking today, but 
they go to the wrong place for it; they go to the 
devil's house. Of course, if they get into God's 
house th6y must go where God stays. But you 
talk about your circumstances and say: "If you 
had these difficulties I have to meet you wouldn't 
talk about rivers of pleasure and houses of fat 
things." Well, now my friend, what do you call a 
circumstance? Do you suppose God ever saw a 
circumstance or a difficulty? He tells us what he 
is able to do. But you say it's the place where 
you live. Oh, no, my friend, it isn't the place you 
are at that makes you shout, but it is the condition 
you are in. It isn't what people say about you 
that makes you happy, it is what God knows you 
to be. For we read in the New Testament: "If 
any man be in Christ Jesus he is a new creature. 
Old things have passed away; behold, all things 
are become new." And if all things are new and 



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you walk up the street and meet a fellow and he 
slaps you on the side of the head, he will get honey 
all over his hands, and as he licks it off he will get 
under conviction and come back to see what ailed 
you; you tell him and he will want the same thing. 
If your experience has juice in it, it will have 
teeth, and if it ha3 teeth it will bite, and if it bites 
of course it will get hold of somebody, and he will 
holler and when he hollers you wall have him 
located, and then you will know where to work. 

Now, this leads us up to another step. We 
read in Jar. 33: 8, where he is speaking of the 
backslidings of the people and the city, and he 
says, " Behold I will bring it health and cure, and 
1 will cure them, and will reveal unto thee the 
abundance of peace and truth." I suppose peace 
and truth are the finest ingredients in the Christian 
life. We read in Isaiah 26: 3, "Thou wilt keep 
him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee 
because he trusteth in thee," We read again in 
Psalms 119: 165. "Great peace have they that 
love thy law, and nothing shall offend them." 
This brings us to the place where the world can't 
offend us, and we can in everything give thanks. 
But you say there are some things that you can't 
be thankful for. If a man were to knock you 
down with a brick bat, ycu couldn't thank God 
for that. Oh yes, my friend, you could thank God 
that you didn't knock him down, and that would 
bring you out ahead. Others say they could not 



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thank God for being lied about. Why yes, ray friend, 
the Book says the liar shall take his part in hell, 
and not the man that was lied on. And if they 
He on you, you have nothing to do but rejoice, for 
Christ said, "Rejoice and be exceeding glad for 
great is your reward in Heaven, for so persecuted 
they the prophets which were before you." Now, 
Christ says again in John 14 : 27 : "Peace I leave 
with you; my peace I give unto you; not as the 
world giveth give I unto you. Let not your heart 
be troubled, neither let it be afraid." And again 
we read in Phil. 4: 6-7, Paul says: "Be careful 
for nothing, but in everything by prayer and sup- 
plication with thanksgiving let your requests be 
made known unto God. And the peace of God 
which passeth all understanding shall keep your 
hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." 

There you have got peace located. The un- 
derstanding is in the head, and peace in the heart, 
so you see it passes right by the understanding 
and hits you in the heart. But you say that is not 
the correct rendering. Have you got anything 
that is more correct? The peace that passes 
understanding runs right by your head, and a 
man's head is nothing but a know on the end of 
his backbone noway. God is not after your head, 
but your heart, which is the seat of your affections. 
We would be much better and happier if we would 
unload our head religion and get something in our 
hearts. 



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And now, friend, we have had an abundance 
of mercy, an abundance of pardon, an abundance 
of grace, an abundance of the Holy Ghost, an 
abundance of life, an abundance of satisfaction 
and an abundance of peace and truth. And now' 
we bring you to an abundance of love. We read 
in Ephesians 3: 14-21: "For this cause I bow my 
knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of 
whom the whole family in Heaven and earth is 
named, that he would grant you, according to the 
riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might 
by the spirit in the inner man ; that Christ may 
dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye being rooted 
and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend 
with all saints what is the breadth and length, and 
depth and height; and to know the love of Christ, 
which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled 
with all the fullness of God. Now unto him that is 
able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we 
can ask or think, according to the power that 
worketh in us, unto him be glory in the church by 
Jesus Christ throughout all ages world without 
end. Amen." Well, of course he had to say 
"amen," there was nothing else to say. He 
reached the top and could go no further. He had 
you filled with all the fullness of God and said he 
was able to do exceeding abundantly above all we 
ask or think. We will never be able to exhaust 
his lova. He takes what nobody else wants and 
loves and saves them. His great loving heart was 



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moved with compassion for me, and he reached 
down his loving arms and pulled me up, and put a 
song in my mouth and praises in my heart, and it 
has been twenty -one years and he has never 
thrown up my mean kin -folks to me yet. It makes 
rae love him and it shows him to be a God of love. 

One other thing that brings us to a place 
where we are ready for Heaven. Saint Peter 
writes in Second Peter 1: 1L: "For an entrance 
shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the 
everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus 
Christ." So we have an abundant entrance into 
Heaven. We wont have to hug the gate post, but 
with our wedding garments on and all its trim- 
mings we'll go in and run up the streets, probably 
a mile wide and fifteen hundred miles long, and 
jump into the river and swim across and climb the 
tree of life, the fruit of which is as big as your two 
double fists, and ripens every month in the year. 
It's without peeling on it or seed in it and so good 
that it melts in your mouth. I dreamed one night 
of eating fruit off of the tree of life and it was so 
good that I could hardly eat Texas grub for a week 
afterwards. 

Now, reader, put these graces all together and 
see if it is not worth while to trust God to supply 
all your needs. If you have got the thing and 
live it you will draw. Christ said: "If I be lifted 
up I will draw all men unto me." I will show you 
the difference between the people that draw and 



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those who do not. I have had people come to my 
house and set down and talk awhile, inquire into 
the health of the family and the general news and 
when they would leave they would ask us to come 
to see them, and we would ask them to come back, 
and we thought but little of it. There was noth- 
ing peculiar about the visit. I have had other 
people to visit me and somehow when they would 
come to the door I would find myself going to meet 
them, bring them in and set down as near to them 
as I could get. They also would inquire into our 
health, talk to us of the goodness of God. Before 
they would leave they would get down and pray 
with us and you could feel the presence of the 
Lord in the home. When they would get up to 
leave they would walk out into the yard and I 
would walk right along by them. They would 
walk out to their buggy and get into it. I would 
walk up between the hind wheel and the fore 
wheel and put one foot upon the axle, hold the 
dashboard and talk as long as they would stay. 
When they would turn to drive away I would stand 
and watch them as they would drive off. I'd watch 
the old buggy till it would get out of sight. Fd 
walk back into the house and feel a little sad 
some way and would wonder what ailed me and 
the light would break in on me that this person 
had been holding up the Lord and he had been 
drawing me. Now, friends, you can see the dif • 



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ferance between these two visitors. One eould 
draw and the other didn't. The man that draws 
can fulfill the scripture where it says, " We are to 
be all things unto all men that we might win 



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